Stand Up If You're Here Tonight
The Maso Studio @ The Huntington Theatre
January 20 - March 23, 2024
Please note this event is general admission.
Written and directed by John Kolvenbach
Featuring Jim Ortlieb
Maso Studio
@ The Huntington Theatre
264 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115
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Approximate Run Time: 60 minutes plus as long as you want to stick around afterward
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Notable Dates:
Opening Night: 1/24 at 7:00 pm
Synopsis:
“You’ve tried everything. Yoga. Acupuncture. Therapy. You floated in salt water in the pitch black dark. You juiced, you cleansed, you journaled, you cut, you volunteered. You ate only RINDS for three days and nights. You reached out, you looked within. You have tried. And yet here you are.”
So begins a new play by Olivier Award-nominated playwright John Kolvenbach. Jim Ortlieb delivers a tour-de-force performance as a man desperate for connection, bent by isolation, and deeply in love with the audience itself. After sold out runs in LA, Chicago, and Paris, this thoroughly unique, interactive theatrical experience comes to the intimate 150-seat, and gorgeously renovated Maso Studio!
Cast & Crew
Jim Ortlieb
Performer
Jim Ortlieb
Performer (Jim Ortlieb) Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Of Mice and Men, Guys and Dolls. 1st National Tour: Billy Elliot the Musical (Chicago and Toronto). International: Hughie, The Homecoming, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Translations, Faith Healer, Dark Pony (Gare St. Lazare Paris, France and West Cork, Ireland). Regional: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Man Who Came to Dinner (Steppenwolf); Grapes of Wrath (Dir. David Cromer Ford’s Theatre); Tartuffe, Candide (Weston, VT); M the Murderer (Organic and Gare St. Lazare Chicago); Blind Date (Goodman, Chicago); The Book of Will, All In The Timing (Northlight, Chicago); Life Sucks (Lookingglass, Chicago); Scapin (American Blues Theatre Company, of which he is a member.)
Melisa Pereyra
Person
Melisa Pereyra
Melisa Pereyra is a multi-hyphenate performer, VO, writer, director, and educator. Broadway: A Doll’s House. Regional: American Players Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, among others.
John Kolvenbach
Writer and Director
John Kolvenbach
John Kolvenbach West End: Love Song (Olivier nomination, Best New Comedy, starring Cillian Murphy); On an Average Day (with Woody Harrelson). Love Song premiered at Steppenwolf and played in New York, Zurich, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, Seoul, and Rome and will be revived this Spring in Chicago by Remy Bumppo. Average Day has been produced in Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, and Lisbon. Goldfish premiered at South Coast Repertory, then played at the Magic Theatre, directed by Loretta Greco.
Kristine Holmes
Scenic Designer
Kristine Holmes
Kristine Holmes designed Mala for ArtsEmerson that was remounted for The Huntington and the Guthrie. She is the full-time Prop Director at The Huntington and has been with the company for 32 years.
M Berry
Lighting Designer
M Berry
M Berry Regional: The Ding-Dongs (Gloucester Stage Company); Chicken and Biscuits (Front Porch Arts Collective); Made You Look/The Day We Saw Everything (Lyric BackStage); Hurricane Diane, Do You Feel Anger? (Kitchen Theatre Company); Resonate (Urbanity Dance).
Adele Traub
Production Stage Manager
Adele Traub
Adele Traub The Huntington: Guide for the Homesick, I Was Most Alive With You. Regional: I Was Most Alive With You (Playwrights Horizons); R. Buckminster Fuller (ART); It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues (Capital Repertory Theatre); Preludes (Lyric Stage); People, Places, and Things, BLKS, appropriate, Small Mouth Sounds, A Future Perfect, Tribes, Clybourne Park (SpeakEasy Stage); also productions at Israeli Stage, Vineyard Arts Project, Central Square Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theater, Boston Conservatory, and BU Dance Theatre.
ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR STAND UP IF YOU’RE HERE TONIGHT
Musician Coordinator……………………….Asha Luevano
Production Assistant………………………………Ross Gray
Carpenters…………………………………………Max Rocca, Nick Robinette, Steven Asaro, Michelle Walker, Frida Swallow, Joe Ellard, Rachel Schladenhauffen
Scenic Artist………………………………………Sam Galvao
Costume Design Assistant………………….Becca Jewett
Lighting Design Assistant……………Makenna Harnden
Electrician………………………………….Violet Gayzagian
Brighter Boston interns………………….James Hoang, Ezra Torres
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