Barry Edelstein
ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Timothy J. Shields
AUDREY S. GEISEL MANAGING DIRECTOR
PRESENTS
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ALAUDIN ULLAH
MUSIC BY AVIRODH SHARMA
SCENIC DESIGN Yu Shibagaki
COSTUME DESIGN Izumi Inaba
LIGHTING DESIGN Anshuman Bhatia
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Darlene Miyakawa
DIRECTED BY CHAY YEW
This production contains one act with no intermission.
Production Staff
Associate Director Jacob Janssen
Associate Scenic Design Randy Wong-Westbrooke
Assistant Scenic Design Audrey Casteris
Assistant Costume Design Katie Knox
Production Assistant Kali Boston
Stage Management Swing Kendra Stockton*
Dishwasher Dreams was was presented at Hartford Stage and Writers Theatre.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Si desea una sinopsis de esta obra en Español o en Inglés, favor de pedírsela al acomodador que le entregó este programa. If you would like a synopsis of this production in English or Spanish, please request it from an usher.
September 16 – October 15, 2023
Sheryl and Harvey White Theare
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
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ALAUDIN ULLAH (Writer and Performer) As a writer: member of The Public Theater’s inaugural Emerging Writers Group; workshops and productions at The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Lark Play Development Center, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, LAByrinth Theater Company, New Federal, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Silk Road Rising, Victory Gardens. As an actor: his solo show Dishwasher Dreams (Writers Theatre, Hartford Stage, Castillo Theatre). Film: co-starred in American Desi, several voices in the award-winning animated Sita Sings the Blues. Television: one of the first South Asian comedians featured nationally on HBO, MTV, BET, PBS, Comedy Central; featured in “Uncle Morty’s Dub Shack” (IATV). Other: Vivek Bald’s book Bengali Harlem was inspired by Ullah’s plays and his family’s journey to America; co-director of the documentary of the same name on PBS. bengaliharlem.com. |
CHAY YEW
(Director) New York credits: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, City Center Encores!, Playwrights Realm, Audible Theater, Rattlestick Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, National Asian American Theatre, Ma-Yi Theater Company. Regional credits: Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, South Coast Rep, Center Theatre Group, Denver Center Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Humana Festival, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Portland Center Stage, East West Players, Singapore Repertory Theatre, others. Honors: Obie Award for Direction. chayyew.com.
AVIRODH SHARMA (Original Music) One of the leading tabla players and percussionists from the West Indies and United States. Credits: work with Karsh Kale, Ayaan and Amaan Bangash, Borromeo Quartet, Mira Nair, Fazal Qureshi, Christylez Bacon, Kailash Kher, Vikku Vinayakram and Selvaganesh from Shakti, David Bowie’s drummer Sterling Campbell, many others. Recent credits: resident percussionist for the world premiere of Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding the Musical; Dishwasher Dreams in Chicago. Albums: Crossing Continents featuring Vikku Vinayakram, Fazal Qureshi, Parsons Dance Company, Selvaganesh, NV Tassa Ambassadors (Top 10 music charts across the world); upcoming album will be released in December. |
YU SHIBAGAKI
(Scenic Design) (she/her) NYC-based set designer originally from Nagoya, Japan. The Old Globe: Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play. Recent designs: Madama Butterfly (Boston Lyric Opera), Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon, Villette, Her Honor Jane Byrne (Lookingglass Theatre), 1919 (Steppenwolf Young Adults), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Studio Theatre), Dishwasher Dreams (Hartford Stage), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Goodman Theatre), I, Banquo, I, Cinna (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), more. Upcoming designs: Simona’s Search (Hartford Stage), Dracula (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Dishwasher Dreams (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), more. yushibagaki.com.
IZUMI INABA
(Costume Design) The Old Globe: debut. Off Broadway: How to Defend Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop). Recent regional: Sanctuary City (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Origin Story (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Clue (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Ring of Fire (Drury Lane Theatre). Other: member of United Scenic Artists Local USA 829, represented by Gersh Agency.
ANSHUMAN BHATIA
(Lighting Design) Designs for opera, theatre, dance: Arena Stage, Atlantic, Austin Opera, Bard Music Festival, Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, Chautauqua Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, Dublin’s Civic Theatre, Hartford Stage, HERE Arts Center, Keen Company, Kentucky Opera, LoftOpera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Madison Opera, Opera Columbus, Opera Omaha, Opera San Jose, Pacific Symphony, Palm Beach Opera, Park Avenue Armory, Primary Stages, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Soho Rep, The Juilliard School, The McKittrick Hotel, The Public, Virginia Arts Festival, WP Theater, Writers Theatre. Member: USA 829. Education: M.F.A. from NYU. bhatiadesign.com.
DARLENE MIYAKAWA
(Production Stage Manager) Member: Actors’ Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists. Recent regional: Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Geva Theatre Center, L.A. Dance Project, Barrington Stage Company, Long Beach Opera, The Watermill Center Festival, Playwrights’ Arena, Piedmont Opera, Opera San Jose, California Symphony, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Memphis, Tri-Cities Opera, New York City Opera, Opera San Antonio, Los Angeles Philharmonic, LA Opera, East West Players, Getty Villa, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
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barry edelstein (Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. His Globe directing credits include The Winter’s Tale, Othello, The Twenty-Seventh Man, the world premiere of Rain, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Hamlet, the world premiere of The Wanderers, the American premiere of Life After, Romeo and Juliet, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and, during the pandemic, Hamlet: On the Radio. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of the Globe for All community tour, and he oversees the Globe’s Classical Directing Fellowship program. In addition to his recent Globe credits, he directed The Wanderers Off Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company this year and The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008–2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions as well as its educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, he staged the world premiere of The Twenty-Seventh Man, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and Steve Martin’s WASP and Other Plays. He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998 to 2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. His book Thinking Shakespeare is the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions. He is a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. |
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Timothy j. Shields (Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director) joined The Old Globe as Managing Director in 2017. In his time in San Diego, he has enjoyed becoming involved in the community. He currently serves as a board member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s LEAD program; an advisory board member of the San Diego Downtown Partnership; and Vice President of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. He brings to San Diego many decades of not-for-profit theatre experience. He was Managing Director of Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre Center (2009-2017); Milwaukee Repertory Theater (1998–2009); and Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York (1992–1998). He has also held administrative positions at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Denver Center Theatre Company, and McCarter Theatre Center in an earlier period of his career. He served as President of the League of Resident Theatres and as Vice President of the board at Theatre Communications Group. He has been the Chair of the ArtPride NJ board; a member of Milwaukee’s Latino Arts Board; and a board member of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee. He holds a B.F.A. in Drama Production from Carnegie-Mellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
taking Photos in the theatre
Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance and during intermission. If you post photos on social media or elsewhere, you must credit the production’s designers by including the names below.
Yu Shibagaki, Scenic Design
Izumi Inaba, Costume Design
Anshuman Bhatia, Lighting Design
Please note: Photos are strictly prohibited during the performance. Photos of the stage are not permitted if an actor is present. Video recording is not permitted at any time in the theatre.
special thanks
Hartford Stage Theatre Costume Collections & Rentals
This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
The Directors are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.
This Theatre operates under an Agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 122.
The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.