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Michael Rogers as Mugabe, Che Ayende as Gabriel, Rosalyn Coleman as Grace, Ezra Barnes as Andrew Peric.
![]() Che Ayende as Gabriel
![]() Ezra Barnes as Andrew Peric,
Rosalyn Coleman as Grace
![]() Michael Rogers as Mugabe |
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I am concerned with what goes on inside the mind. As my record shows, my own skin color, the color of my patient’s skin, I don’t consider that relevant. | CAST | THE TEAM:
HARRISON HARVEY (general manager) has worked with many of New York City’s defining, award-winning theater producing companies including The New Group, Classic Stage Company, N.Y.M.F., The Keen Company, The Actor’s Company Theatre and many more. Harrison previously served as General Manager of The Ride, a unique bus touring N.Y.C., as the Executive Director for The Clockwork Theatre, and as the Box Office Treasurer for Theatre Row for over 500 productions. Harrison is also currently a part of the General Management team for the Off-Broadway hits Sistas and F#%king Up Everything. LEE SAVAGE (scenic designer) New York City designs include: Primary Stages, Rx; LCT3, All-American; LABrynth, Thinner Than Water; Roundabout Underground, The Dream of the Burning Boy, and Ordinary Days; Page 73, Jack's Precious Moment; Atlantic Theater, Oohrah!; Partial Comfort, The Bereaved; NAATCO, The Seagull; Clubbed Thumb, punkplay; EST, End Days; the International Fringe Festival, Go-Go Kitty Go!, Fringe New York City Best Play Award; Prospect Theater Company, West Moon Street; Committee Theater Company, The Private Lives of Eskimos and I Heart Kant; La Mama, Harvest; HERE, Frag; and Urban Stages, Worth. Regional credits include productions at: The Alliance; Asolo Rep; Baltimore Centerstage; Berkshire Theatre Festival; Chautauqua; Dallas Theater Center; Delaware Theatre Company; Glimmerglass Festival; Goodman; Guthrie; Long Wharf; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma; Old Globe; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Signature; Philadelphia Theatre Company; Trinity Rep; Two River Theater, Wilma and Yale Rep. Mr. Savage is the recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle Award (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow) and Helen Hayes Award (Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III (nom)). Upcoming projects include: Nerds (North Carolina Theatre), Teddy Ferrara (Goodman Theatre), and Collapse(Women's Project). Mr. Savage holds a Master of Fine Arts, Yale School of Drama; a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design; is a founding member of Wingspace Theatrical Design and currently serves on the faculty of Yale School of Drama. TERESA SNIDER-STEIN (costume designer) I’m Not Rappaport (Broadway & Regional Tour); the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young Man from Atlanta (Signature Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Alley Theatre). Most recent Off-Boadway credits include Him (Primary Stages), Bill W and Dr. Bob (Soho Playhouse). Selected NY credits: Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, NY Public Theater, Lucille Lortel, Classic Stage Co., Vineyard Theater Co. and resident costume designer for 35 productions at Signature Theatre. Regional: South Coast Rep, Goodspeed Opera Company, New York Stage and Film, Dallas Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ford’s Theater, Coconut Grove Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Portland Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival and Paper Mill Playhouse. Bronze Medal Costume Design 2005, World Stage Design International Exhibition. JOYCE LIAO (lighting designer) is an award winning lighting designer based in New York. Her lighting design helped Soul of Shaolin to nominations for a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event, and a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. Her recent and up coming projects include: Collections de Ballet, Taipei City Stage; The English Bride, Centenary Stage Theater and Theater 59E59, Fall 2013; Years of Sky, Theater 59E59, The Immigrant and Say Goodnight, Gracie!, Seven Angels Theater; A Chance Shadow, Dixon Place; Anthony and Cleopatra, Take Wing and Sour Theater; The Heretic, Burning Coal Theatre, amoung others. Joyce's lighting work has also been seen nationally in theaters in New Orleans, Seattle and Washington, D.C., as well as, internationally in Taipei, Shanghai and Bucharest. For more information please visit joyceliaodesign.com. COLIN WHITELY (sound designer)is a sound designer based out of New York City. His credits include Dreamgirls (Main State Music Theater), Les Miserables (Main State Music Theater), Mouse Trap (Centenary Stage Company), Marry Me a Little (Keen Company), 42nd Street (Main State Music Theater), Sunset Boulevard (Main State Music Theater), As Wide As I Can See (HERE Arts Center), Love Song (59E59), Henry VI: Part III (Wide Eyed Productions), Paternity (Cherry Lane Theater), True West (Athena Theater Company) and many more. Colin is very excited to be working on Breakfast with Mugabe a second time!GARY ADAMSEN (production stage manager) NY/Regional: Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding, Hairspray, Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop..., West Side Story, Skin of Our Teeth, Howie The Rookie, and most recently Breakfast With Mugabe at Signature. Director/Designer: Return to the Forbidden Planet, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Chess, The Who's TOMMY, Nine, Harvey, South Pacific, A Chorus Line, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Education and training: SUNY New Paltz, Royal Shakespeare Company - London and the US Navy aboard the nuclear ballistic submarine USS Kentucky - SSBN 737. Gary serves on the advisory board of Making Books Sing, a non profit theatre company that turns children's books into live musicals. Proud member of AEA for over 15 years! Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey.... DREW FRANCIS (production manager), Recent projects include: The World Is Round, directed by Rachel Dickstein,BAM, Our Planet, directed by Alec Duffy, Japan Society, Ballerina Swan, Mint Theatre. Current: Production Manager for Making Books Sing, NYC and Queens Symphony Orchestra, Queens. Technical Director Girl Without Wings, Phoenix Theatre, Business Manager, Shadowland Theatre, Artisan, Tiffany & Co. Recent Scene Design: LABrinyth Theatre, Mint Theatre, Kraine Theatre, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Neighborhood Playhouse, Colleagues Theatre, Red Circle, Theatre for a New Audience Regional Theatre: Shadowland Theatre, Dreamcather Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, InterAct Theatre, Theatre S., Muhlenberg Theatre, Open Door Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Missouri Rep., Colorado Shakespeare, Half Moon Theatre, Next Move Theatre, Merrimack Regional Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Childrens Theatre of Pennsylvania. Designer: New York Toy Fair, Disney, Fisher Price, Mattel, Sesame Street. Currently Adjunct Professor and Scene Designer at SUNY Ulster. DEVIN DAY (assistant stage manager)Broadway: I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers. Off-Broadway: Pinkolandia, Lucy Loves Me (INTAR), The Men (Primary Stages, workshop), The Fig Leaves Are Falling (UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc.) DC Theatre credits include shows for the Source Festival, Capital Fringe Festival and Taffety Punk Theatre Company. Graduate of the University of Mary Washington. SARAH GOSNELL (associate costume designer) Recent Design: Schoomzy Togetherness, House as Home (Williamstown), Dublin by Lamplight, Status Update (McCarter), The Mushroom Pickers (Alloy Theatre), Mercury (Superhero Clubhouse) Malfi, Inc., Life Among the Natives (Milk Can Theatre), God Steeling (Bridge Theater) and A View from the Bridge (Vertical Player Repertory). Recent Associate/Assistant Design: The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons), 4,000 Miles (Lincoln Center), A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep), Emotional Creature (Signature), HIM, Harrison, TX (Primary Stages), Kepler (Spoleto Festival USA), Bill W. and Dr. Bob (Soho Playhouse), Baby Screams Miracle, Phoebe in Winter (Clubbed Thumb), Sleeping Rough (Page 73) and Curse of the Staving Class (Wilma). DREW FRANCIS(production manager)Recent projects include The World Is Round, directed by Rachel Dickstein, BAM; Our Planet, directed by Alec Duffy, Japan Society; Ballerina Swan, Mint Theatre. Current: Production Manager for Making Books Sing, NYC and Queens Symphony Orchestra, Queens. Technical Director for Girl Without Wings, Phoenix Theatre. Business Manager, Shadowland Theatre, Artisan, Tiffany & Co. Recent Scene Design: LABrinyth Theatre, Mint Theatre, Kraine Theatre, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Neighborhood Playhouse, Colleagues Theatre, Red Circle, Theatre for a New Audience. Regional Theatre: Shadowland Theatre, Dreamcatcher Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, InterAct Theatre, Theatre S., Muhlenberg Theatre, Open Door Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Missouri Rep., Colorado Shakespeare, Half Moon Theatre, Next Move Theatre, Merrimack Regional Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Childrens Theatre of Pennsylvania. Designer: New York Toy Fair, Disney, Fisher Price, Mattel, Sesame Street. Currently Adjunct Professor and Scene Designer at SUNY Ulster.
DOUG BARRON (graphics & web design)This is the 24th year designing graphics, typesetting and web sites for many Off- and Off-Off-Broadway theatres and productions, and for numerous artists and performers including Ezra Barnes, whom he first met on a street in Brooklyn in To Kill a Mockingbird. GREGORY COOPER (assistant director) is delighted to be part of the Breakfast with Mugabe family again after having assisted the recent production at Signature Theatre. He has taught English, film, and theatre to middle and high-schoolers; worked for the education departments of Manhattan Theatre Club and The Joyce Theater; and managed the New York City Arts in Education Roundtable. He is currently at work on a documentary about the original production of the Prince-Sondheim musical Follies. PEI-WEN HUANG (assistant costume designer) is from Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Now based in NYC, is a recipient of a Friars Club Scholarship and Frances Black Prize in Drama. She received the KCACTF Merit for Set Design for The Pearlfisher (U.S. Premiere), and was the only American student at the biennial Stage Design Exhibition of International Theatre Schools. Director of the 2012 Fringenyc FringeAL-FRESCO. Awarded design works include A Bright Room Called Day (Set), Eurydice (Set), and The Violet Hours (Costume). She received her MFA from Brooklyn College, CUNY. http://peiwenhuang.pixpasites.com J. DAVID BRIMMER, VIOLENCE CONSULTANT (fight master, SAFD) has choreographed some stuff (Broadway: An Enemy of the People, Grace, Wit, Born Yesterday, A Life in the Theatre, Speed the Plow, Come Back, Little Sheba, Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. NY Premieres: Blasted, The Whipping Man, Ages of the Moon, The American Pilot, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe, worked at some wonderful venues (New York Public Theatre, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, The Atlantic, Lincoln Center, Signature Theatre, TFANA, The Roundabout, MCC, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Center Stage, NSMT, ART, Baltimore Center Stage, the Guthrie) and with some great folks (David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Martin McDonough, Tracy Letts, Kenneth Lonergan, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli). “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” G. Fox
SUSAN JANE WALKER (associate producer), is an actor, stage manager, production and casting assistant. She has acted in touring companies throughout the US and Europe, regional theaters, tv and films and is a founding member of the Pulse Ensemble. For over 20 years she has been an active supporter of The Actors Fund and loan officer, chairmen of the credit committee and board member of the Actors Federal Credit Union. She was Executive Producer of And if Tomorrow, which was shown in several festivals in the US and abroad. She is now working as a mentor and producer with filmmakers associated with the Crossroads Cultural Center. She is pleased to be working with Ezra Barnes again after performing with him years ago. PRODUCTION CREDITS Company Manager: Sarah Rotker Props Designers: Kelsey Lueken, Andy Yanni Production Manager: Drew Francis Supplemental Costumes Associate Costume Designer: Sarah Gosnell Assistant Company Manager: Amanda Hutt Assistant Sound Designer: Emily Auciello Wardrobe Supervisor: Pei-Wen Huang Fight Director Assistant: Dan Fight Captain: Gary Adamsen Language Consultants: Sylvia Hove, Saki Mafundukwa, Michael Rogers, Tichafa Tongorara Production Assistants: Montgomery Mauro, Scenic Build: Centerline Studios Lighting Package: Hayden Production Services Audio Package: Chinchilla Theatrical Master Carpenter: Richard Porcelli Lighting installed by: The Lighting Syndicate Master Electrician: The Lighting Syndicate Production Electrician: Seán Linehan Production Sound Tech: K Barber Crew Chief: Montgomery Mauro Load-in Crew : Laura Brauner, Kourtney Barber, Craig Collins, Joshua Klein, Walter Lugo, Colleen Lynch, Emily McDonald, Kring Newell, Richard Porcell, Adriano Valle, Nick Williams, James Zally Photography: Joseph Henry Ritter Office Assistant: Joseph Barnes Rehearsal Studios: Manhattan Theatre Club |
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