The Lehman Trilogy
June 13,–July 16, 2023
By Stefano Massini
Adapted by Ben Power
Directed by Carey Perloff
“The Lehman Trilogy” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
The Huntington Theatre
264 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Show Synopsis:
Written by Stefano Massini and adapted into English by Ben Power, The Lehman Trilogy is an epic and timely story of family, ambition, and risk, sprawling across 163 years of history and shining a calculating spotlight on the spectacular rise and fall of Lehman Brothers, a family and a company that changed the world. Carey Perloff (Rock ‘n’ Roll and Mary Stuart at The Huntington, A Thousand Splendid Suns and many others at San Francisco’s ACT) will direct.
Performed entirely by three actors, the story follows the original three Lehman brothers, then their sons and grandsons, as they journey from rags to riches to ruin. In 1840s Alabama, a Bavarian immigrant dreams of a better life for his family. By the early 2000s, his descendants trigger unprecedented financial disaster. In a marvel of storytelling, this extraordinary piece of theatre is both an intimate saga about a family and a monumental exposé of unbridled capitalism.
“A dazzling piece of story-telling.”
Time Out
“A must-see event. Epic in every conceivable way. You dare not miss it.”
NY Post
“Behold it with wonder.”
NY Times
“A Masterwork.”
The Times
“A triumph. Exhilarating and sublime.“
The Washington Post
Cast & Crew
Joshua David Robinson
Emanuel Lehman
Joshua David Robinson
Joshua David Robinson Broadway: The Minutes. Off Broadway: Arden of Faversham (Red Bull); The Unbelieving (The Civilians); X: Or Betty Shabazz vs The Nation (St. Clements); Sense of an Ending (59E59Theaters); The Convent of Pleasure (Cherry Lane); Twelfth Night (TFANA).
Steven Skybell
Henry Lehman
Steven Skybell
Steven Skybell Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof; Pal Joey; Wicked; The Full Monty; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Café Crown; Ah, Wilderness! Off Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actor); Babette’s Feast; Cymbeline; Antigone (Obie Award).
Firdous Bamji
Mayer Lehman
Firdous Bamji
Firdous Bamji The Huntington: Mary Stuart. Off Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout, Obie Award: Outstanding Performance); Homebody/Kabul (BAM/NYTW/Steppenwolf); The Changeling, Measure for Measure (TFANA); Gum, Crocodiles in the Potomac (WP Theatre); SubUrbia (Lincoln Center).
Joe LaRocca
Musician
Joe LaRocca
Joe LaRocca Tour: Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary National Tour, Reed 1). Regional: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Ogunquit Playhouse, Reed 2); A Man of No Importance (Footlight Club, Reed 1); The Secret Garden, Matilda, Beauty and the Beast, Fun Home, Nine, and others.
Matthew Bretschneider
U/S Mayer Lehman
Matthew Bretschneider
Matthew Bretschneider The Huntington: Common Ground Revisited, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe, Dead End, Ah! Wilderness. Off Broadway: The Erlkings (Theatre Row); The Footage (The Flea); The Taming of the Shrew (Pulse Ensemble).
Scott Wentworth
U/S Henry Lehman
Scott Wentworth
Scott Wentworth Broadway: Lost In Yonkers, Getting Married, Anna Karenina, Welcome To The Club (Tony nomination). Regional: American Conservatory Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Public Theater, Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, Chicago Shakespeare.
Kadahj Bennett
U/S Emanuel Lehman
Kadahj Bennett
Kadahj Bennett Huntington: Common Ground Revisited, Dream Boston, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Recent local credits include People, Places & Things, Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage), Hype Man (Company One/ART), The Charles Lennox Experience (New Rep), Isolated Incidents (Broadway Podcast Network), and This Place Displaced (Actors Theater Boston). He is an Elliot Norton Award winner and a WBUR ARTery 25 Changemaker.
Todd Brunel
U/S Musician
Todd Brunel
Todd Brunel Front Porch Arts Collective: Ain’t Misbehavin’. Current projects: Know Orchestra, Peter Cassino and Friends, The David Haas Group: Coalition of the Willing, Tom Casale’s No Bad Parts, The Roaring Foxes, Jerome Deupree’s Listen to This.
Stefano Massini
Author
Stefano Massini
Stefano Massini an internationally renowned novelist and playwright who regularly contributes to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. For several years he has served as artistic consultant at Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa. His works, including The Lehman Trilogy, have been translated into 27 languages, and his plays have been performed in more theaters around the world than those of any other living Italian writer, produced as far afield as Iran and Korea, and staged by directors such as Luca Ronconi and Sam Mendes.
Ben Power
Adaptor
Ben Power
Ben Power is a writer for theatre and the screen. For the last 12 years he has worked at the National Theatre as associate director and deputy artistic director and was responsible for the temporary theatre The Shed. Work for the screen includes Munich: The Edge of War and The Hollow Crown (BAFTA nominations for Best Single Drama and Best Mini-Series).
Carey Perloff
Director
Carey Perloff
Carey Perloff The Huntington: Mary Stuart, Rock ‘n’ Roll. Off Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout). Regional: Home? (Voices Festival, D.C.), Ibsen’s Ghosts (Seattle Rep and Williamstown), Pale Sister (Gate Theater, Dublin), Queens (LJP), Private Lives (Stratford Festival), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arena, Old Globe, SRT, ACT), Merchant of Venice (Calgary).
Avital Shira
Assistant Director
Avital Shira
Avital Shira Regional directing credits: Winter People (Boston Playwrights Theatre); Lifeboat (Corrib Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Post5); Two Gentlemen of Verona (DISJECTA). Regional assistant directing credits: Romeo and Juliet (Denver Center of Performing Arts); The Real Thing (Writers Theatre); Cyrano (Portland Center Stage).
Julie Felise Dubiner
Dramaturg
Julie Felise Dubiner
Julie Felise Dubiner Select dramaturgy credits: Between Two Knees by the 1491s; The Copper Children by Karen Zacarías; Sweat by Lynn Nottage; Indecent by Paula Vogel; and The Liquid Plain by Naomi Wallace.
Sara Brown
Scenic Designer
Sara Brown
Sara BrownThe Huntington: Common Ground Revisited. Regional: Bluebeard’s Castle / Four Songs (Boston Lyric Opera); The Day (Jacob’s Pillow); Hagoromo (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Fellow Travelers, La Rondine (Minnesota Opera); World of Wires (The Kitchen in NYC and Festival d’Automne in Paris); Prince of Providence (Trinity Repertory); Der Freischütz (Heartbeat Opera); The Mother of Us All (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Dede Ayite
Costume Designer
Dede Ayite
Dede Ayite Broadway: Topdog / Underdog, Ohio State Murders, American Buffalo, How I Learned to Drive, A Soldier’s Play, Slave Play, Chicken & Biscuits, American Son, and Children of a Lesser God. Off Broadway: Merry Wives (Public Theater); Seven Deadly Sins (Tectonic); Secret Life of Bees, Marie and Rosetta, (Atlantic); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, (Signature); Nollywood Dreams, BLKS, School Girls… (MCC); Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); Toni Stone (Roundabout).
Robert Wierzel
Lighting Designer
Robert Wierzel
Robert Wierzel Broadway: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; Fela!; Dreams & Nightmares. Off Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout); Two Trains Running, Hot ‘N’ Throbbing, (Signature Theatre); Taming of the Shrew, Troilus & Cressida, Othello (NYSF). Music: The March to Liberation (NY Philharmonic).
Mark Bennett
Co-Sound Designer and Composer
Mark Bennett
Mark Bennett The Huntington: Yerma, Ripcord, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Seagull, Dead End, The Rose Tattoo, Persephone. Broadway: The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk Award), Macbeth, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Driving Miss Daisy, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Goat, Henry IV, A Steady Rain, Tartuffe, A View From The Bridge, Lily Tomlin’s The Search…
Charles Coes
Co-Sound Designer
Charles Coes
Charles Coes The Huntington: Confederacy of Dunces. Off Broadway: Golden Shield (MTC); Sing St (NYTW); Letters of Suresh (Second Stage); Small World Stories (Phantom Limb). Regional: Jitney, (Mark Taper Forum); Into the Woods (Ahmanson); Little Black Shadows, The Tempest, All the Way (South Coast Rep); Miss You Like Hell, Fun Home, The Christians, Soul, Animal Farm (Baltimore Center Stage); Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice, Murder on the Orient Express (Repertory Theater of St Louis); Sense and Sensibility, The Way the Mountain Moved (OSF); Bad Dates, Sabina (Portland Stage); Homer’s Coat’s production of An Iliad on 6 continents.
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Projection Designer
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew The Huntington: Top Girls. Broadway: Macbeth. Off Broadway: Elyria (The Atlantic); Relevance (MCC, Lortel nomination); Informed Consent (Primary Stage). Regional: Once (Arden Theatre Company); In the Wake (Profile Theatre).
Misha Shields
Movement Consultant
Misha Shields
Misha Shields Misha Shields The Huntington: K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Witch, Yerma, Ripcord, A Doll’sHouse, Milk Like Sugar, I Was Most Alive With You. Off Broadway: Baghdaddy (Chita Rivera Award nominee for Best Choreography, St. Luke’s Theatre); Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company); Who’s Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started The Iraq War (The Actor’s Temple); The Orion Experience (XL Nightclub).
Lee Nishri-Howitt
Voice Coach
Lee Nishri-Howitt
Lee Nishri-Howitt The Huntington: Romeo and Juliet, The Art of Burning. Regional: Once, Allegiance (SpeakEasy Stage); The Book of Will, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Lyric Stage); Oliver!, Hair, Trayf (New Repertory Theatre); Little Women, James and the Giant Peach (Wheelock Family Theatre); All is Calm (Greater Boston Stage Company).
Emily F. McMullen
Production Stage Manager
Emily F. McMullen
Emily F. McMullenhas stage managed over 30 shows over the past nine seasons at The Huntington, including Clyde’s, The Art of Burning, CommonGround Revisited, Hurricane Diane, Sweat, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Indecent, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Man in the Ring, The Niceties, TopGirls, Bad Dates, Tartuffe, and Merrily We Roll Along.
Lucas Bryce Dixon
Stage Manager
Lucas Bryce Dixon
Lucas Bryce Dixon The Huntington: Clyde’s, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Common Ground: Revisited, The Bluest Eye, Hurricane Diane, Yerma.
