Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt
The Huntington Theatre
September 12 – October 13, 2024
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Carey Perloff
Produced in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company
The Huntington Theatre
264 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Approximate run time: 2 hours and 20 minutes, plus one 15-minute intermission.
Notable Dates:
Opening Night: 9/18 at 7 pm
Humanities Forum: 9/29 at 2 pm
Synopsis:
Winner! Four Tony Awards, including Best Play. Winner! Two Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Play.
The latest masterpiece and most personal play from Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt is a stirring and epic story of love, family, and enduring bravery. In Vienna, the heart of European culture at the rise of the 20th century, two brothers have conflicting visions of prosperity – both for their family and the Jewish people – a tension that will echo through the generations that follow.
“Epic!” —WBUR
“There are scenes that charm, scenes that startle, and scenes that are chilling. A triumphant saga!” —Stage and Cinema
“A phenomenal story! You should be excited about it. It’s that powerful!” —Jared Bowen, GBH
“The Huntington’s Leopoldstadt left me reeling – and must be seen!” —Joyce Kulhawik, JoycesChoices.com
“Powerful! Absolutely gorgeous! Carey Perloff’s direction is outstanding and insightful!” –METR Mag
Cast & Crew
Samuel Adams
Fritz / Percy
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams Off Broadway: Hamlet (Kraine Theater); The Inn at Lydda (reading, Red Bull); Summer & Smoke (Theater Row); Surface to Air (Symphony SpaceTheater). Off off Broadway: Leni & Joseph (New Ohio Theater); The Bacchae (Miller Theater); Your Alice (Ophelia Theater Group); The Execution of Mrs. Cotton (IRT Theater). Regional: Amadeus (Folger Shakespeare); Henry V (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); Red Velvet (Shakespeare Theater Company); Jeeves & Wooster (Public Theatre); As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Company ACA); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Walden Shakespeare).
Firdous Bamji
Ludwig / Kurt
Firdous Bamji
Firdous Bamji The Huntington: The Lehman Trilogy, 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). Regional: This Much I Know (Theatre J); The Birthday Party (ACT); In the Heart of America (Long Wharf); Othello (Hartford Stage); As You Like It, Galileo (Center Stage); Dollhouse (Goodman); Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Troilus & Cressida (Shakespeare Theatre); The Lisbon Traviata (Studio Theatre); Burn This, Bent, Beirut (Trustus Theatre).
Joshua Chessin-Yudin
Zac / Nathan
Joshua Chessin-Yudin
Joshua Chessin-Yudin The Huntington: Prayer for the French Republic. Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic, The Sound Inside. Off Broadway: Prayer For the French Republic (MTC). Regional: We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War (Golden Thread); The Happiest Song Plays Last (Theater 22); Really, Really, My Mañana Comes (ArtsWest); Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth (Seattle Shakespeare Company). Education: BA, University of Washington. @joshua_zev joshuacy.com
Sarah Corey
Wilma
Sarah Corey
Sarah Corey The Huntington: The Band’s Visit. Off Broadway: A Letter to Harvey Milk, Love and Real Estate. Regional: Lippa’s Wild Party (New Rep, IRNE Best Supporting Actress); Caroline, or Change (SpeakEasy Stage); Tommy, You Never Know (GBSC); Grand Night for Singing (Gloucester Stage); Nunsense, Educating Rita (Barnstormers); Meshuggah-Nuns! (Lyric Stage); Evita, Sisters of Swing, Titanic (Worcester Foothills); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare); Shear Madness (Kennedy Center); The Refugees (Gulfshore Playhouse); Falsettos, Songs for a New World (Rep Stage); Nathan the Wise (Theater J); Bad Jews (The Gamm); Oil (Olney Theatre Center); In the Book Of (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Christmas Carol (TheatreSquared); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arena Stage); Rhinoceros (Tantrum Theatre).
Elijah Ditkoff
Pauli / Young Leo
Elijah Ditkoff
Elijah Ditkoff Community: Beauty and the Beast, Much Ado About Nothing, Follow the Leader, Willy Wonka, Romeo & Juliet KIDS! (Artbarn Community Theater). He has performed at the Boston Children’s Museum and numerous public and private schools in Boston and Brookline. Education: graduate of Kingsley Montessori School in Boston, currently in seventh grade at the Park School in Brookline, and is studying for his bar mitzvah in December.
Samuel Douglas
Otto / Civilian and U/S Ernst
Samuel Douglas
Samuel Douglas Regional: The Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Gently Down the Stream (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); Arlington (Yale Cabaret). University: Uncle Vanya, Macbeth, The Misanthrope, The Cherry Orchard (Yale School of Drama).
Maboud Ebrahimzadeh
Ernst
Maboud Ebrahimzadeh
Maboud Ebrahimzadeh Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (Shakespeare Theatre & Tectonic Theatre); Murder on the Orient Express, Disgraced (McCarter Theatre); Disgraced (Milwaukee Rep); The Price (Arena Stage); English, People, Places, & Things, Water by the Spoonful (Studio Theatre); Seafarer, Ink, Oslo, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Small Mouth Sounds, Book of Will, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Round House Theatre); Mockingbird (Kennedy Center); Lend Me a Soprano, Oil (Olney Theatre Center); The Invisible Hand (Theatre Exile); Hatmaker’s Wife, Nathan the Wise, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Theater J); 1 Henry IV, King John, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar (Folger Theatre).
Tony Estrella
US Hermann / Ludwig / Kurt
Tony Estrella
Tony Estrella has been artistic director at The Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island for 22 seasons where he has appeared in or directed more than 75 productions. His favorite roles at The Gamm include George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Frank in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, Hamlet in Hamlet, Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing! and Vanya in Uncle Vanya. Directorial highlights include Twelfth Night, Hangmen, Bad Jews, Assassins, JQA, True West, Festen, Sara Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis, A Streetcar Named Desire, and the U.S. premieres of Howard Brenton’s Paul and Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch.
Rachel Felstein
Eva / Nellie
Rachel Felstein
Rachel Felstein Off Broadway: This American Life – As Seen on Radio (BAM); A Tender Offer (Ensemble Studio Theater); The George Sand Play Festival (City Center); The Mikado, Patience (New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players). Regional: The High Ground, Holiday, Right to be Forgotten (Arena Stage); Lend Me A Soprano (Olney Theater Center); The Pianist (George Street Playhouse); Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World (Mosaic Theater Company of DC); Fun Home (Virginia Stage Company); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Summerland (Washington Stage Guild); Antigonick (Taffety Punk); The Marvelous Wonderettes (Allenberry Playhouse).
Rebecca Gibel
Rosa / Hilde
Rebecca Gibel
Rebecca Gibel The Huntington: Merrily We Roll Along. Regional: The Prince of Providence, Little Shop of Horrors, Melancholy Play, Othello, Pride & Prejudice, Oklahoma, A Tale of Two Cities, Barefoot In the Park, Fairview, Ragtime, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Lie of the Mind (Trinity Rep); Noises Off (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Yentl (Cleveland Play House); The Three Sisters (Arden Theatre); Orpheus Descending, Blues For Mr. Charlie, Gross Indecency (The Feast); Frogs (Fault Line Theatre).
Mae Grimley
Young Sally / Mimi
Mae Grimley
Mae Grimley Community: The Wizard of Oz, Much Ado About Nothing, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland (Artbarn Community Theater). Education: rising 7th grade student at Boston Latin School. This is her professional acting debut.
Jennie Israel
US Poldi / Hanna / Emilia / Eva
Jennie Israel
Jennie Israel The Huntington: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Regional: Cyrano (Lincoln Center Theatre); The Marriage of Figaro, The Beaux Stratagem (Yale Repertory Theatre); Guernica, King Lear (Actors’ Theatre of Louisville); Antigone (Chautauqua Theatre); Living in Exile, Heidi Chronicles (Vineyard Playhouse); King Lear (La Mama); Scarlet Letter, Undine’s Valediction (Shakespeare & Company); Macbeth, As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Medea, The Dutchess of Malfi, Edward II, Henry VI part 1, and 11 other productions (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Dancing at Lughnasa, Living Together, Table Manners (Gloucester Stage); Boston Marriage, Dollhouse, Tartuffe (New Rep); Twelfth Night (Lyric Stage); Molly Maguire (Sugan Theatre).
Phyllis Kay
Grandma Emilia / Eva
Phyllis Kay
Phyllis Kay The Huntington: Prayer for the French Republic, We All Fall Down. Regional: Macbeth, Lend Me a Tenor, Angels in America, The Beauty of Queen Leenane, The Cider House Rules, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Cherry Orchard, All the King’s Men, Cabaret, The Hunchback of Seville, Appropriate, Death of a Salesman, Into the Breeches!, Tiny Beautiful Things (member of Trinity Rep’s Resident Acting Company); King Lear (Dallas Theater Center); JQA (Arena Stage); The Children, Doubt (Gamm Theatre); Let’s Go, Olympia (Joe’s Pub).
David Keohane
US Fritz / Percy / Otto / Civilian
David Keohane
David Keohane Regional: Smart People (Silverthorne Theater); An Act of God (Denizen Theater); Things I Know To Be True (Great Barrington Public Theater); Vanity Fair, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Matchless & The Happy Prince (Underground Railway Theater); The Crucible (BEDLAM / Nora Theater Company); The Tempest (Opera House Arts); Ah, Wilderness! (Goodman Theatre); Tug of War: Parts 1 & 2 (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Oak Park Festival Theater). Education: MFA (UMass Amherst, exp. 2026); BFA (Boston University).
Holden King-Farbstein
Pauli / Young Leo
Holden King-Farbstein
Holden King-Farbstein Regional: Wonka, Matilda, Newsies, A Christmas Story (Seacoast Repertory Theater); Wedding Singer, Little Mermaid Jr, Matilda, Seussical Jr. (Pine Street Players). Other credits: Wizard of Oz (CMS Drama Club); Cats Jr. (Palace Youth Theater). Education: 7th grader at Cooperative Middle School. Holden hails from Exeter, NH. @holden.king.farbstein
Adrianne Krstansky
Poldi / Hanna
Adrianne Krstansky
Adrianne Krstansky The Huntington: The Art of Burning, Doll’s House, Come Back Little Sheba (Eliot Norton Award). Off Broadway: Luck, Pluck and Virtue (Atlantic Theater Company); 365 Days/365 Plays (Public Theater). Regional: The Art of Burning (Hartford Stage); Paradise Lost, Britannicus, Ubu Rock (ART); A Clockwork Orange, Twelfth Night (Steppenwolf Theater); Tribes (Kitchen Theater).
Brenda Meaney
Gretl
Brenda Meaney
Brenda Meaney The Huntington: Leopoldstadt. Broadway: Uncle Vanya (Lincoln Center Theatre). Off Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout); Incognito (MTC); Party Face (NY City Center); Fuente Ovejuna (TFANA); Little Gem (Irish Rep); The Mountains Look Different, The New Morality (The Mint); Great Negro Works of Art, (LaBute Short Play Festival).
Golda Munzer
Young Sally / Mimi
Golda Munzer
Golda Munzer Community: Honk, Romeo and Juliet (Kids), Wonka, Much Ado About Nothing Jr, Beauty and the Beast (Artbarn Community Theater). Also, a member of Artbarn Community Theater’s “Out of the Box” touring performance troupe; performed in Follow the Leader. Camp: The Lorax, SpongeBob The Musical (Camp Micah).
Quinn Murphy
Young Jacob / Heini
Quinn Murphy
Quinn Murphy Regional: A Christmas Carol, The Full Monty (North Shore Music Theatre); Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert (Boston Symphony Hall). Quinn has performed in youth shows with: New England School of Performing Arts, North Shore Music Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Stage 284, and Five Star Theatre Company. Training: studies voice with Noel Smith Voice Studio. @quinncmurphy quinncmurphy.com
Nael Nacer
Hermann
Nael Nacer
Nael Nacer is an award-winning actor based in Boston, MA. This past year he made his Broadway debut in the Tony nominated production of Josh Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic, directed by Tony winner David Cromer. Previous credits at The Huntington include: Leopoldstadt, Prayer for the French Republic, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Come Back, Little Sheba, Awake and Sing!, The Seagull, and Our Town (directed by David Cromer). Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Manhattan Theatre Club).
Lily Narbonne
US Gretl and Eva / Nellie
Lily Narbonne
Lily Narbonne Regional: A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Persuasion, Cyrano de Bergerac (SPARC in Livermore, CA); Every 28 Hours (Berkeley Rep/A.C.T); The Three Musketeers, King Lear, Two Noble Kinsmen, All’s Well That Ends Well (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Proposal, Romeo & Juliet, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Dumb Waiter, Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew (Lanes Coven Theater Co).
Hannah Nocon
Young Rosa / Bella
Hannah Nocon
Hannah Nocon Regional: The Mystery of the Missing Music (New England Philharmonic). Community: several productions with Artbarn Community Theater. Also, a member of Artbarn Community Theater’s “Out of the Box” touring performance troupe. Voice: 2023 Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) All-State Chorus. Education: Rising seventh grader at Amos A. Lawrence School. She is from Brookline, MA.
Sarah Oakes Muirhead
US Wilma and Rosa / Hilde
Sarah Oakes Muirhead
Sarah Oakes Muirhead The Huntington: Tartuffe, Sunday in the Park With George, A Little Night Music. Regional: We Will Not Be Silent, Fiddler on the Roof (New Rep); Arcadia, The Women Who Mapped the Stars (Nora Theatre Company); Show Boat (Reagle Music Theatre); 4000 Miles, Spring Awakening (Gloucester Stage Company). Education: BFA in Acting from Boston University + the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Jacob Schmitt
US Jacob / Leo and US Zac / Nathan
Jacob Schmitt
Jacob SchmittUniversity: Macbeth, The Tempest (RADA); Sense and Sensibility, Once, Colossal, Shakespeare’s R&J, Museum (Boston University). Education: BFA (Boston University’s School of Theatre). additional training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. jaschmitt.com @ja.schmitt
Jackie Scholl
US Jana / Sally and US Hanna / Hermine
Jackie Scholl
Jackie Scholl is a Boston and New York based actor. Regional: Stuart Little, Akeelah and the Bee, Frog and Toad, Pinnochio (Wheelock Family Theatre). University: The Wolves, Banksy: a new work, Much Ado About Nothing, Urinetown, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
Anna Slate
Jana / Sally
Anna Slate
Anna Slate Regional: La Cage aux Folles, By The Queen (Trinity Repertory Company); Indecent, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Wilbury Theatre Group); Handle with Care (North Carolina Stage Company); A Little Night Music, The Fantasticks (Four Seasons Theater); Alice Unwrapped (Nautilus Music-Theater); Cruisical the Lesbian Musical (Dixon Place); The Inconvenient Miracle (The Skeleton Rep); It Didn’t Happen (Cauldron Theater); Charlotte’s Web (Asheville Creative Arts).
Simonne Stern
Young Rosa / Bella
Simonne Stern
Simonne Stern Broadway tour: Waitress. Regional: A Christmas Carol (Central Square Theatre); The Little Mermaid (North Shore Music Theatre). Film: Ava. Commercials: Hasbro (several). Camp: Little Shop of Horrors (Camp Emerson). Training: for the last five years, Simonne has studied contemporary, jazz, and ballet at Cape Ann Center for Dance.
Anna Theoni DiGiovanni
Hannah / Hermine
Anna Theoni DiGiovanni
Anna Theoni DiGiovanni Regional: Through the Sunken Lands (The Kennedy Center); The Till Trilogy (Mosaic Theatre Company of DC); Cry It Out (Studio Theatre); Twelfth Night (Her Majesty & Sons, Founding Producer); Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, She Stoops to Conquer (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); She Kills Monsters (Rorschach Theatre); Venus in Fur (4615 Theatre); The Revolutionists, Bike America, The Explorers Club (Prologue Theatre Company), Pericles (Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting).
Elias Wettengel
Young Jacob / Heini
Elias Wettengel
Elias Wettengel Regional: Oliver!, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Matilda (Stage284); Newsies (YMCA). Short films: Frere Jacques, Message in the Tides. Training: North Shore Music Theatre, TADA! Youth Theatre NYC, Marblehead School of Music, North Shore Dance Academy. Eli has been acting since he was four years old. Education: seventh-grade student. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts. @EliasActs
Mishka Yarovoy
Jacob / Leo
Mishka Yarovoy
Mishka Yarovoy Regional: Sanctuary City (TheatreWorks Hartford); As You Like It (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Chicken and Biscuits (Front Porch Arts Collective); The Inheritance (SpeakEasy Stage); Let the Right One In (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Stupid F****** Bird (Parallel 45). Film: Don’t Look Up (Netflix).
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard Internationally award-winning writer Tom Stoppard’s first play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead premiered at the National Theatre in 1967. His plays include The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, New Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with André Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, The Coast of Utopia, Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Hard Problem.
Carey Perloff
Director
Carey Perloff
Carey Perloff Carey Perloff The Huntington: The Lehman Trilogy, Mary Stuart, Rock ‘n’ Roll. Off Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout). Regional: The Lehman Trilogy (Repertory Theater of St. Louis); As You Like It (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); 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). Director commission: The Oedipus Cycle with John Douglas Thompson (SRT and Red Bull Theater).
Ken MacDonald
Scenic Designer
Ken MacDonald
Ken MacDonald Regional: A Thousand Splendid Suns (ACT, Old Globe, Seattle Repertory); Vigil (ACT, Mark Taper Forum); The Shoplifters, Anything Goes, Newsies, Sovereignty (Arena Stage). Canada: Frankenstein: Revived, Private Lives, Moby Dick (Stratford Festival); Our Town, Sweet Charity, When We Are Married, Arms and the Man, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Design For Living, My Fair Lady (Shaw Festival); Maggie (Theatre Aquarius); The Marriage of Figaro, Flight, Barber of Seville, Macbeth (Pacific Opera Victoria); The Shoplifters (Theatre Calgary); The Overcoat, (Vancouver Playhouse, Canadian Stage and Canadian, US and UK tours); Susannah, The Rake’s Progress, The Threepenny Opera (Vancouver Opera).
Alex Jaeger
Costume Designer
Alex Jaeger
Alex Jaeger The Huntington: Prayer for the French Republic, Rock ‘N Roll. Off Broadway: Two Sisters and a Piano (Public Theatre), Wiesenthal (Acorn Theatre). Regional: Mr. Burns (The Guthrie); Arcadia, The Homecoming, Maple and Vine, Major Barbara, Once in a Lifetime, Venus in Fur (American Conservatory Theater); Other Desert Stories, A Parallelogram (Mark Taper Forum); All’s Well that Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Wrinkle in Time, Stop Kiss, Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); She Loves Me, Amadeus, All My Sons, Nostalgia, True West, Goldfish (South Coast Repertory)
Robert Wierzel
Lighting Designer
Robert Wierzel
Robert Wierzel The Huntington: The Lehman Trilogy. Broadway: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; Fela!; Dreams & Nightmares. Off Broadway: Indian Ink (Roundabout); Two Trains Running, Hot ‘N’ Throbbing, (Signature); Taming of the Shrew, Troilus & Cressida, Othello (NYSF). Music: The March to Liberation (NY Philharmonic). Regional: ACT, Goodman Theater, Guthrie Theater, Alliance Theater, Hartford Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Center Theatre Group, OSF, Old Globe.
Jane Shaw
Sound Designer and Composer
Jane Shaw
Jane Shaw The Huntington: The Art of Burning, Our Daughters Like Pillars. New York: Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre for a New Audience, Mint Theater Company, National Black Theatre, Repertorio Español, NYTW, Cherry Lane Theatre, The COOP, Bedlam. Regional: The Alley, The Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Cleveland Play House, The Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, ACT, ART, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Capital Rep, Northern Stage.
Yuki Izumihara
Projection Designer
Yuki Izumihara
Yuki Izumihara is an award winning scenic, projection, and production designer born in Shimonoseki City, Japan and based in Oakland, CA. Izumihara’s work is influenced by years of martial arts training and is animated by a belief in discipline, ethics and craftsmanship. She also serves as an art director, concept designer, and visual artist to establish, clarify, and amplify project identities through visual language
Tom Watson
Wig and Makeup Designer
Tom Watson
Tom Watson Broadway: over 100 productions including Harmony, Spamalot (2023), Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King & I , Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo, Falsettos, The Little Foxes, Junk, My Fair Lady, King Kong, All My Sons, Plaza Suite, The Coast of Utopia. Originally from Northern Ireland, Tom headed the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years.
Charles Haugland
Dramaturg
Charles Haugland
Charles Haugland is the Director of New Work for The Huntington, and is currently in his fifteenth season with the company. His dramaturgical credits at The Huntington include world premiere productions by Kirsten Greenidge, Craig Lucas, Gina Gionfriddo, Lydia Diamond, and Melinda Lopez, along with co-creating the audio play series Dream Boston.
Drew Lichtenberg
Dramaturg
Drew Lichtenberg
Drew Lichtenberg Broadway: Time and the Conways (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off Broadway: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM); Hoppla, We’re Alive! (La Mama); Macbeth (Public Theater). International: Les Blancs, Salomé (National Theatre). Regional: Resident Dramaturg at Shakespeare Theatre Company since 2011, over 55 productions; freelance work at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, ACT, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, among others.
Dori A. Robinson
Associate Director
Dori A. Robinson
Dori A. Robinson The Huntington: The Band’s Visit, Prayer for the French Republic. Directing credits include Silent Sky, Educating Rita, The Elm Tree, Fully Committed, A Bright Room Called Day, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Lion in Winter, Winter of Discontent, Peter and the Starcatcher, A Bintel Brief, The Chelmites Capture the Moon. Dori’s original plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Boston, and is a company member of Alight Theater Guild.
Daniel Pelzig
Movement
Daniel Pelzig
Daniel Pelzig The Huntington: The Band’s Visit, Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music, Company, Candide, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tartuffe, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore. Broadway: 33 Variations, A Year with Frog and Toad, Sweeney Todd (Kennedy Center Sondheim Festival). Off Broadway: Privates on Parade, Newyorkers, The New Moon, Valhalla. Regional: Guthrie, Alliance, Goodman, and Shakespeare Theatres
Jesse Hinson
Fight Director and Intimacy Consultant
Jesse Hinson
Jesse Hinson is a Boston-based violence designer, intimacy choreographer, actor, and educator. The Huntington: Fat Ham. Regional: Cost of Living, Casa Valentina (SpeakEasy Stage), Rx Machina (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), The Minutes (Umbrella Arts). Anna Christie, The Little Foxes (Lyric Stage Company), Bud, Not Buddy (Wheelock Family Theater).
Lee Nishri-Howitt
Dialect Coach
Lee Nishri-Howitt
Lee Nishri-Howitt The Huntington: The Band’s Visit, Prayer for the French Republic, The Lehman Trilogy, 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 Rep); 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. McMullen has stage managed over 30 shows over the past nine seasons at The Huntington, including Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, John Proctor is the Villain, The Band’s Visit, The Lehman Trilogy, Clyde’s, The Art of Burning, Common Ground Revisited, Hurricane Diane, Sweat, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Indecent, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Man in the Ring, The Niceties, Top Girls, Bad Dates, Tartuffe, and Merrily We Roll Along.
Deirdre Benson
Stage Manager
Deirdre Benson
Deirdre Benson The Huntington: The Band’s Visit, The Art of Burning. Regional: Blue Man Group (Boston), American Repertory Theater, The Barnstormers, SpeakEasy Stage, Greater Boston Stage Company, Boston Circus Guild. Touring: Pretty Woman, the Musical.
Ashley Pitchford
Stage Manager
Ashley Pitchford
Ashley Pitchford The Huntington: John Proctor is the Villain, The Heart Sellers, Fat Ham, Joy and Pandemic, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Teenage Dick, Witch, We All Fall Down, Man in the Ring. Regional: The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Richard III (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); A Strange Loop (SpeakEasy Stage); Seven Guitars (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Taming of the Shrew (Lanes Coven Theatre Company); Create. Inspire. Change Theatre Company; Happy Madison Productions. Education: BFA Stage Management.
Janet Foster, CSA
Casting Director
Janet Foster, CSA
Janet Foster, CSA has been casting for over 35 years. At The Huntington, she recently worked on Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, and The Band’s Visit. Eight years at American Conservatory Theater included working with directors Carey Perloff, Mark Lamos, Mark Rucker, Annie Kaufmann, Loretta Greco, and many more. Her career prior to ACT was in NYC with nine years at Playwrights Horizons, first as assistant and then as casting director.
Lyndsay Allyn Cox
Producing Director and Local Casting
Lyndsay Allyn Cox
Lyndsay Allyn Cox is in her second season at The Huntington. Huntington acting credits: Common Ground Revisited, Our Daughters, Like Pillars, and Witch. Huntington directing credits: Joy and Pandemic (Associate Director). Select regional acting: Fairview, Men on Boats (SpeakEasy Stage) Fabulation, Barbecue and By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lyric Stage Company); Bright Half Life (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage Company); Winter People (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Leftovers and The Overwhelming (Company One Theatre).
Lexi Ashraf
Child Supervisor / Production Assistant
Lexi Ashraf
Lexi Ashraf worked as a technician and stage manager at Bowdoin, after teaching and leading children’s theater with The LINX Companies for 5 years. Regional (stage management): Seussical Jr. (Greater Boston Stage Company). University (stage management): The 39 Steps, A Raisin in the Sun (Bowdoin College). Education: BA in Psychology, with a minor in theater (Bowdoin College).
Additional Staff for Leopoldstadt
Associate Director………………………………Dori A. Robinson
Fight Director and Intimacy Coordinator……Jesse Hinson
Dialect Coach…………………………………….Lee Nishri-Howitt
Child Supervisor and Production Assistant…..Lexi Ashraf
Northeastern Co-Op……………………….Karen Gallagher
Carpenters…………………………………………….Harley Novy, Lucas Dixon, Nick Robinette, Sam Tardif, Michelle Walker, Robert Hamilton
Run Crew…………………………………………Corey Roberts, Nick Robinette
Props Artisans……………………………….Andrew T. Reynolds, Duncan Kennedy, Ian Thorsell
Costume Design Assistant……………………Andrew Wehling
Drapers………………………………Becca Jewett, Ken Busbin
First Costumers…………………………………..Susanna Brown, Stephanie “Sam” Martin
Stitchers…………………………………………………Sen Barone, Ava Luman, Hannah Klein
Wardrobe Run……………………………..Jennie Stowe Fuchs
Wardrobe Swing…………………………Katherine Lawrence
Wig Run……………………..Susana Moncousky, Roisin Daly
Wig maintenance…………………………………..Sarah Tupper
Wig Swing…………………Andrew Wehling, Lauren Wright
Associate Lighting Designer………………………….M Berry
Assistant Lighting Designers…………..Makenna Harden, Hope Debelius
Season Electrician…………………………..Lauren Hodgkins
Lighting Programmer…………………………….Zack Connell
Electricians…………………………………….. Leo Khomiakov, Spencer Swetlow, Emma Currier-Dougherty, Kelly Furman, Tom Fowler, Nick Robinette, Violet Gayzagian, Carmen Alfaro, Li Downey
Projections Engineer………………………………Klara Ballay
Audio Run (A2)………………………………Madonna McGuire
Special thanks to Hartford Stage Costume Rentals, Mohini Daya, MD, Dr. Lawrence Gibel
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The Huntington offers many different affiliation and aged-based discounts off our ticket prices. Discounts can be applied online, in person, or over the phone. Patrons who purchase discounted tickets must pick up their tickets and provide proof of ID or eligibility at ticketing services before the show. All discounts are subject to availability.
Access Tickets
Patrons who are Deaf and/or blind/low-vision and their guests can purchase tickets to designated ASL-Interpreted, Audio Described, or Open Captioned performances for $20 each.
- Use code ACCESSOC to unlock tickets for Open Captioned performances.
- Use code ACCESSASL to unlock tickets for ASL-Interpreted performances.
- Use code ACCESSAD to unlock tickets for Audio Described performances.
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Active US Military
$25 tickets are available to all performances for Active US Military and their immediate family. Use promo code MILITARY to access US Military pricing. Valid ID required.
Group sales
Groups can save up to 20% off ticket prices for most productions. Student group pricing available. Learn more about group rates.
Huntington Community Membership Initiative (HCMI)
$20 tickets are available to all performances for participants in the Huntington Community Membership Initiative. Use your exclusive HCMI promo code tied to your organization to redeem. Learn more about our Huntington Community Membership Initiative.
HYPE discounts
$40 tickets are available any time for patrons age 40 years and younger as part of our HYPE program (Huntington Young Patron Events). Valid ID required. Tickets are subject to availability and some zone restrictions may apply. Use promo code DISCOUNT to access HYPE (40 Below) pricing. Input code DISCOUNT before seat selection. Promo will apply at checkout. Learn more about HYPE.
Limited Pay-What-You-Wish
At The Huntington, we believe price shouldn’t be a barrier for folks to enjoy world-class theatre. Because of this, we have a limited number of Pay-What-You-Wish tickets available for all Huntington performances for those who need them. Pay-What-You-Wish is not available online. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit Ticketing Services in person at either box office location or call us at 617-266-0800.
Student discounts
$25 tickets are available to all performances for full-time students. Use promo code DISCOUNT to access Student pricing. Valid ID required.
$29 Tickets
In addition to our age and affiliation-based discounts, a limited number of unrestricted $29 tickets are available at each performance.
HOW TO USE DISCOUNT CODES
Enter your promo code into the top right corner of your screen next to “View Cart”. Available discounts will apply automatically after entering the promo code.
For questions about promo codes, please contact our ticketing team by emailing tickets@huntingtontheatre.org or calling 617-266-0800.
The Huntington acknowledges that our physical spaces stand on the occupied homeland of the Massachusett people. We’d like to begin by acknowledging the Massachusett Tribe from whom the Colony, Province and Commonwealth of Massachusetts have taken their name. We’d like to pay respect to the ancestral bloodline of the Massachusett Tribe and their descendants who still inhabit the land to this day. We honor and respect the many native peoples who are connected to this land, past, present and future, including the Nipmuc and Wampanoag peoples.
This land acknowledgement was created by staff of The Huntington with input from the council of The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. To learn more about the tribe or to donate in support of their current programs, visit their website www.massachusetttribe.org