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YOUTH
PAINS OF YOUTH NEW
YORK PREMIERE
FEBRUARY 13 - MARCH 2
ACCESS THEATER
380 BROADWAY AT WHITE ST.
t2.
Presents
PAINS OF YOUTH
by Ferdinand Bruckner in a new version by Martin Crimp
Featuring
Emily
CAST
..Emily Batsford*
....................marcus d. harveyx
................Casey Hayes-Deats
Manater...............
*These Actors and Stage Manager are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
Batsford
harvey
Casey
Hayes-Deats
Rachel McKeon
Danny Rivera
Jacob Trussell
SETTING
Marie's room. A boarding house. Vienna, 1923.
Scenic Design
Ryan Howell
Props Designer
Marissa Bergman
Lighting
Gary
Design Slootskiy
Hare
Alexander Reed
received a BFA
Social
in Acting from Syracuse University. She recently finished working on the web
series Zombie and Me, which can be found
Katie
Dramaturg Craddock
Production Stage
LaShawn
Manager Keyser
from Brooklyn College. Some favorite credits include: Father in Eurydice, Husz
in A Bright Room Colled Doy, Julius Caesar
in Julius Coesor, Fes in An Americon Dreom, Cory in Fences, Roman in The Foiy Gorden.
Representative Director of Marketing Jonathan Slaff & Associates Jacob Marx Rice
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Adina Rose Levin
Associate Producer
Rendina Brothers Production
blio.com. Previous theatrical roles include: Masha (Ihree Sisters), Alice (A/icet Adventures in Wonderland), and others at Abingdon Theater (NYC), Miami Theater Center, PlayGround Theater (Miami), Edinburgh Fringe, Red House (Syracuse), and Neofuturarium (Chicago). Proud member of AEA. www.emilybatsford.com
on
guidance,
The Cake Shop Theater Company for this opportunity and this banana of a cast and crew for such a fun-filled journey. To my agent Albert of Emerging Talent, manater Naomi of Bohemia Group, family, friends and apple of my eye Krystle for love and support. This performance is dedicated
hails
Cloud 9 (HarrylCathy), Mocbeth, Cyrono de Bergerac, Ring'Round the Moon (Hugo/ Frederic); and the title roles in peer Gynt, Bot Boy, and Sweeney Todd. proud member of AEA.
Martin Crimp (Adaptor) was born in 1956 and began writing for theatre
in the
Republic
/n
the
and
completed filming the independent feature Leoving Virginville, in which she stars. This performance is dedicated to Caleb, Mom and Gatti.
summer stock roles include: Luciana in Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company), and Grace Poole / Helen Burns in Jone Eyre (British American Drama Academy), U/S for Bianca in Othetto
(Commonwealth Shakespeare Company).
Hoppiness (Z0lZ), ploy House (2012), The City (2008), Fewer Emergencies (2005), Cruel ond Tender (2004--written
of
Foce
to the Woll
(2002), The Country (2000), Attempts On Her Life (1997), The Treotmenr (1993),
Getting Attention (1992), No One Sees the
Rachel McKeon (Desiree) hails from Western Pennsylvania and trained at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She can be seen starrint as the unruly lrene
writer and theatre manater. His father was an Austrian businessman and his mother a French translator. After the separation of his parents, he spent time
in Vienna and Paris, and in Berlin where he began to study music. However, impressed by the Expressionist literary scene in Berlin, in 1916 he moved away from music and devoted himself to poetry.
in
&
Performance
into many languages and produced all over the world. His translations include Gross und Klein (2012), Rhinoceros (2OOt), The
Folse Seryonr (2004), The Triumph of Love (1999), The Moids (1999),The Choirs (1991),
Studies in the spring of 201 l, where he was also an active member of the Washington,
in the upcoming
film
independent feature
DC theater community. Upon returning to his native New York City, Danny
loined The Flea Theater as a member of their resident acting company, the Bats, where he appeared in A. R. Gurney's Heresy (Pedro) and a workshop of Thomas Bradshaw's Jab (Job and others). Other actint credits include Columbia University
ln the
following years,
he
published
Homemokers (2013 IFP Narrative Labs), and the spirited Annie in Ihe Story of Milo & Annie, opposite Academy Award-nominee Cathy Moriarty. Favorite
Roberto Zucco (1997), a new version of The Seogull (2006) for London's National
in l9l7 he with
Theatre, and a contemporary adaptation of The Misonthrope (1996). He has writren two opera texts for George Benjamin: /nto the Little Hill and Written on Skin.
recent roles: Catherine in A View From The Bridge (Secret Theater) Susan Parks in Ihe Pitmen Pointers (Pittsburgh lrish & Classical Theatre), Anna in Spring Awokening (Pittsburgh Musical Theater), and Darla in Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) (P.S. 122). Other theater: The
Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Pittsburgh CLO, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Debate Society. Proud member AEA/
SAG
Gustav Hartung
in
ln
Perspectives
Shakespeare
co-
of
founding producing artistic director of The Cake Shop Theater Company. She has directed short plays by Julia Jordan,
the
success
and raised
(Williamstown Theatre
-AFTRA. www.rachelmckeon.com
in the Texas countryside, he called Austin home for seven years before relocating
to
in
Brooklyn and has trained at Barnard College, the British American Drama Academy, HB Studios, and Shakespeare & Company. Recent New York credits
include Marianne in Sense ond Sensibility
recent NYC transplant, regional credits include: t14od Jacob's Beot, Hip, ond Gone, ond Horvey (ZACH Theater); Other Desert Gtieq Chess, Ihe
Fontosticks, and Mon Of Lo lvlancho (Austin Playhouse); Boal ond Hill Country lJnderbelly
to
Brooklyn.
the anti-fascist play Dre Rossen. ln 1936, he moved to the USA, although he achieved little success there. Twenty years after his flight from Germany in 1953 he returned to Berlin where he worked as an advisor to the Schiller Theater. He died in Berlin on 5 December 1958.
MADS
Theater); The Yellow Boot by David Saar (touring, Community lmpact); and other works with UglyRhino (Brooklyn), SlTl
Company, NYU Steinhardt, and New york Stage & Film. Recent assisting includes the
(dir. Nicholas Martin). She holds a BA from Columbia (summa cum laude) and is
an associate member of SDC.
Martin Schnellinger
(Costume
Gary Slootskiy
(Lighting Designer)
Designer) is a designer living in New York City. Recent credits include Mommy at Art Pond Studio, Crossing Swords at New York Music Theatre Festival and Americon Night: The Bollod of Juon./osi at Yale Repertory
Stage),
Mark Van Hare (Sound Designer/ Composer) is a composer and sound designer working in New York City. He designed the sound for Daniel Fish's
Eternal at lncubator Arts Project, Marisol at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatere with NYCDA, Look Upon Our Lowliness at Harlem School of the Arts Theatre, Ior Boby at DR2 Theatre, and Domoscus at 4th St. Theatre. He also designed the
Theatre and California Shakespeare Theatre. Other Yale credits include Two Gentlemen of Verono, The Bochelors, and Angels in America: Perestroika. ln
(Less Than Rent), Forever Ploid (Olney Theatre), Comedy of Errors, The Odyssey, Mocbeth, Romeo ond Juliet, Animol Farm
(National Players Tour), Mory's Wedding, To Kill o Mockingbird (Bristol Valley Theatre), Orpheus in the Underworld (Boston Opera
Stage
as the
Production
Company
Washington, D.C., Martin has designed productions of Eodos de Songre, Mummy in the C/oset: fhe Return of Evo Peron, and
The Aging of the Plum at GALA Hispanic
sound for Elizabeth Rex at the Stonington Opera House and composed the music for Los Meninos at Asolo Repertory Theatre. markvanhare.com
Theatre, After luliet at lmatination Stage, and Abstoct Nude for the Capitol Fringe
Festival. He has also designed Suor Angelicol
on Broadway. Assistant designs include projects with the Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Lincoln Center, NYTW and Second Stage. Web:
htto://www.earvs loots kiv.co m
dance competitions and weddings! She was most recently the ASM for her first Off-Broadway productlon, Every Doy A
Visitor.
Gionni Schicci for the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, ltaly. Martin has an MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama. www.martinschnelli nger.com
Diana Levy (General Alexander Reed (FightChoreographer) grew up in New Zealand for most of his life where he went to school right up until
college. He started actint in his teens and continued all the way through his college
Manager) Projects
Ryan Howell
Marissa Bergman
(Props Designer)
and
lhe
the... Dreomcoot for the AfterWork Theatre Project. Ryan received his MFA from the University of CincinnatiCollege Conservatory
Brooklyn based props master, artisan, shopper, assistant, and set dresser originally from Las Vegas, NV. Her recent credits include work with Kathy Fabian and Propstar on the Broadway shows Rocky: The Musicol, lfl
Then, Betroyol, Bridges of Modison County, Kinky Boots, Choplin, Nice Work if You Con Get lt, and A Steetcor Nomed Desire. She
is a
years. Before moving to New York to further his acting training, he appeared in classical plays, commercials and shorts
all done in Auckland, New Zealand. He is also a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where he is an assistant state
include: Portroit ond o Dreom (FringeNYC, Producer), All the Roge (Company Manager), Divorce Party the &lusicol (Asst. Company Manager), Forevermon (NYMF, Company Manager), Murder for Two, Eve Ensler's Emotionol Creoture, 3C and the Season of Cambodia Arts Festival. Diana is the Assistant to the General Managers at Snug Harbor Productions, a boutique general management company. Thanks to Katie and Casey for the opportunity and
the support.
of Music.
While
Flute, A Midsummer Nrghtt Dreom, Arcadio, lnto the Woods (2012, LCT Award- Outstandlng Production), Giulio Cesore ln Egitto, and A Little Night Music. Ryan received his B.F.A from Penn State University, where he designed She Loves t14e and Tole of ... Morsupial Girl (2009, oliver Smith Award). Ryan has also been associated with The Signature Theatre, The Atlantic Theatre Company, Royal Caribbean lnternational, River City Scenic, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, and Pittsburgh CLO. To check out more of his work so to rvanmhowell.com.
to
of Youth.
has worked with Roundabout Theatre Company (Bod Jews), Signature Theatre Company (Open House, Hurt Villoge), New York Shakespeare Exchange (lslond: Or, To Be or Not to Be), West Side YMCA
Katie Craddock
Dramaturg) grew
(Assistant Director/
up in Ras Tanura,
Saudi Arabia. She graduated in May from Barnard, where she double majored in English and Theatre. For her thesis, she wrote a play about a Sri Lankan domestic
works, forgotten texts, and reimagined classics that gve an uncensored voice to characters and creators coming of age particularly women. ln pursuit of resonant stories, we choose each project for its potential to feed, delight, and stlmulate
audience and artists alike.
A note on
in Vienna between the First
I92Os Yienno...
student demographics
professors
and
left
shifted, groundbreaking
to
research unfinished
to
fight,
and
the main university building was co-opted as a military hospital with lecture halls for operating
theaters. By 1919, military casualties compounded by a colossal civilian outbreak of Spanish Flu dropped
their parents' homes and live independently in boardinghouses while they studied, and many were awarded the University
leave
of Vienna's highest degrees along with academic accolades. Women were, incidentally, also becoming
objects of medical and academic fascination - most famously in the work of University of Vienna professor, Sigmund Freud. Freud had been lecturing at the medical school since 1886, but he gained prominence as one of the few world-famous scholars still living and working after the war and opened a psychoanalytic clinic in Vienna in 1924.
Eugenics projects also gained steam
the Nazi Party of Germany. ln 1923, encouraged by regular audiences at his beer hall speeches in Munich, Hitler attempted to seize power at the Beer Hall Putsch. He failed, but his supporters formed youth troups, assembling what became the Hitler Youth in 1926. Bruckner wrote Poins of Youth that to touch the suffering of a teneration on the brink - to use the the intimate, domestic travails of one circle of friends to peer into an epochal struggle to stay awake in the "City of Dreams." Though dependent on the particular upheavals of a distant time and place, these characters' journeys feel almost contemporary in fresh translation by Martin Crimp making it all the more difficult for their disillusionment to be casually dismissed. We invite you tonight to slip away to this foreign world where the familiar may yet lurk at any turn. We hope you enjoy. Thank you for joining us here.
same year
to
less than
period, tuberculosis reemerged as the familiar killer sometimes even referred to as "the Viennese disease" and accounted for a quarter of all deaths in the city closer to half of all deaths in the
working class. And promiscuity and an increase in prostitution brought
on by
drastically imbalanced
Secessionist artists Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and others produced some of today's most famous
gender distribution and economic desperation made syphilis almost unavoidable for young people of most any class.
Vienna,
savings
of many middle-class
opportunities nevertheless increased for one important troup. Women - includingJewish women relocated from the outskirts of the former
poverty. Public health officials sought new methods of rejuvenating the local population, and the debate over euthanasia grew loud and vehement in both Germany and Austria. Many argued against the government's support of physically or mentally
citizens struggling to procure basic supplies. Death and uncertainty overshadowed university life as
commonplace
for
young women
disabled citizens and turned to nationalism and cultural divides to find fault for society's apparent collapse. These ideas later fused with enraged nostalgia to form the political ideologies and ultimately genocidal terror of Adolf Hitler and
Staff
for
Poins of Youth
wwwjsnyc.com Production Stage Manager.................. ...................LaShawn Keyser Assistant Director..... .....Katie Craddock Associate Lighting Designer..... .................Megan Lang Props Designer..... .........Marissa Bergman
Chittaphong, Kieron Cindric, Eric Cooper, culturefix bar, Katy DiSavino, Rose DuPont, Morgan Everitt, Annie Fox, Cristina Gatti, Danny Goldstein, Michael Goldstein, Michael Guarino, Cat Hayes, Caleb Hayes-Deats, Yasmeen Jawhar, Cary Kung, Frannie Laughner, Rose Levenson-Palmer, Liberated Movement, Brad Lohrenz, Dylan Luke, Anne & Joe Lupica, Charlie Lupica, Amy Rose Marsh, Annie Minoff, Tyler Mitchell, The Midnight Hollow, NYU Law Library, Phebe's Bar, Joe Raik, Gerard Ramm, Nico Rocha, Samuel French lnc., Alex Seife, Serino/Coyne, Signature Theatre Company, Sathya Sridharan, Allison Sundstrom, Gene Sweeney, AII| Trussell, Ron Tsur, Fidel Vazquez, Emily Wallen, Sandy Weiss, Simon Winheld, Xoomba Brooklyn
.................Timothy Thompson
This production would not be possible without the financial support of the following donors:
Vladimir Baranov, Simone Berkower, Molly Braverman, Barry & Beth Buckalew, Ryan Chittaphong, James Cusack, Craig & Lydia Deats, Jessica Durdock Moreno, Karen Ely, Julie Freireich, Puka Gamiz, Anita & Dean Hakanson, Courtney Hakanson, Cat Hayes, Charles & Phyllis Hayes, Tom & Chris Hinkley, Joan Hoffman, Yasmeen Jawhar, Nick Jehlen, Chiristine Kwon, Emily Kaplan, Kauffman & Kahn LLP, Alexandra Keegan, Larry Krantz & Margie Berman, Asher Landay, Pat & Mark Landay, Becky Leifman, Tom Levy & Deborah Sheppard, KC Lewis, James Lundeen, Anne & Joe Lupica, Charles & Gail Lupica, Greg & Amy Lupica, Marg & Joe Mauer, Elizabeth McCoy, Mary & Dale McCoy, James McNeel, Gordon Mehler, Ray & Kim Meier, Amy Menkowitz, Daniel Mitura, Melissa Monteleone, John & Mary Myers, Frank Nestor, Akua Nketia, Karen & Michael Perry, Elizabeth Poleski, Richard Rendina, Emily Rast, Ben & Peggy Rast, Paul Sasseville, Matthew Savins, Aaron Scherzer & Jen Keighley, Tracy & Marc Schwimmer, Ben Stadler, Mary Starmann-Harrison, Alice Sturm, Alli Trussell, Janet, Rick & Sandy Weiss, Melissa Whitely, Frank Wilson, Mary Carmel & Bill Wolf, Anonymous
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