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Ghost Stories
by DAVID MAMET
directed by SCOTT ZIGLER
Atlantic Stage 2
May 27 – June 28, 2015
Atlantic’s final 2014/2015 season production is an intimate revival of two haunting short plays by our co-founder and one of America’s most influential dramatists, directed by Ensemble member Scott Zigler (Broadway’s The Old Neighborhood).
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The Shawl is the story of a bereaved woman who consults a small-time mystic for guidance. As the mystic collects clues to make contact with the dearly departed, will he help this woman through her grief, or merely help himself?
In Prairie du Chien, a railroad car speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide, punctuated by a friendly card game that explodes into a moment of menace.
Cast & Creative


Nate Dendy
Prairie du Chien: Card Dealer
NATE DENDY. The Tempest (Ariel) A.R.T. and South Coast Rep. The Fantasticks (The Mute, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and Helen Hayes Award nominations), Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Trinity Rep; Angels In America (Prior Walter), Risk Theater Initiative; Twelfth Night, Dallas Shakespeare Festival; A Christmas Carol, Trinity Rep. Film: Turtle Hill: Brooklyn. M.F.A. from Brown University/Trinity Rep. He is also a professional Magician and Magic Designer/Consultant.

Jim Frangione
Prairie du Chien: Gin Player
JIM FRANGIONE. Broadway: The Old Neighborhood, Oleanna, Off Broadway and the National Tour. Also with Atlantic: Romance, The Night Heron, Hobson’s Choice, Edmond and Hellhound on my Trail. Regional: Shakespeare & Company, Humana Festival Louisville, Long Wharf, Merrimack Rep, Berkshire Theater Festival, The Alley Theater, Mark Taper Forum, and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT). Jim has directed at WHAT, at HERE and at the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater at Harvard University, and is Co-Artistic Director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Television: “Brotherhood,” “The Unit,” “Law & Order” (original, SVU, & CI). Films include: Transamerica, Spartan, Heist, State and Main, Claire Dolan, Maryam, Frozen Impact, The Spanish Prisoner and Homicide. Upcoming: Kay’s Baptism.

Arliss Howard
The Shawl: John
ARLISS HOWARD. Broadway: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Off-Broadway: Scenes From A Marriage, A Number (New York Theatre Workshop) Ode To Joy (Rattlestick), CQ/CX (Atlantic), The Late Henry Moss (Signature), The Monogamist (Playwrights Horizons), Killer’s Head (The Public Theater). Regional: Uncle Vanya, Ivanov, In The Jungle Of Cities (ART). Film & TV: Moneyball, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Full Metal Jacket, Tequila Sunrise, Men Don’t Leave, Wilder Napalm, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, A Map Of The World, Birth, “Medium” (also directed), “Rubicon.” Wrote and directed films Big Bad Love and Dawn Anna.

Henry Kelemen
Prairie du Chien: Listener’s Son
HENRY KELEMEN. Age 11, played Daniel in last year’s US premiere of Our New Girl at the Atlantic Theater Company. Film roles include Young Tommy Popper in Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Tyler in What Maisie Knew, Apple-Cheeked Boy in The Confines, Randall in Golden Child, Michael in Parable, Young Hank Malone in Surviving Family, Justin in Life Itself, and Young Jude in Ten Thousand Saints, and David in When I Live My Life Over Again. He is currently working on an independent film Cured. Television: Messenger Boy in ABC’s “Zero Hour” and Charlie Portfrancis in “Damages.”

Jordan Lage
Prairie du Chien: Storyteller
JORDAN LAGE. Founding member, Atlantic Theater Company. Productions include Harper Regan, Storefront Church, Keep Your Pantheon, Almost an Evening, Sea of Tranquility, The Night Heron, Mojo, The Hothouse, Edmond, The Water Engine, Dangerous Corner, Distant Fires (AUDelco Award nom.), The Woods, Boys’ Life (Drama Desk nom.). Broadway: Race, Speed-the-Plow, Inherit the Wind, Glengarry Glen Ross (Drama Desk Award), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, The Old Neighborhood, Our Town, A Few Good Men (National tour). Regional: American Buffalo, Race, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ride the Tiger (CT. Critics Circle Award nom.), Rabbit Hole, Love! Valor! Compassion! (Barrymore Award), Blithe Spirit. Film: Good Friday, The Girl in the Book, Shelter, You Don’t Know Jack, Salt, Body of Lies, Michael Clayton, World Trade Center, The Believer, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, Homicide, Things Change. Television: “The Blacklist,” “Elementary,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Nurse Jackie,” “The Good Wife,” “Person of Interest,” “Damages,” “The Big C,” “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Oz,” “The Sound of Music Live!”

Mary McCann
The Shawl: Miss A
MARY MCCANN. Founding member, Atlantic Theater Company. Productions include: Our New Girl, Harper Regan, Bluebird opposite Simon Russell Beale, Almost an Evening, Offices, Body Awareness, Spring Awakening, The Cherry Orchard, The Night Heron, This Thing of Darkness, Edmond, The Water Engine, Dangerous Corner, Boys’ Life and more. Recent productions include: The Weir (Irish Repertory Theatre). Broadway: The Old Neighborhood, Our Town, Search and Destroy. Other Off-Broadway: Oleanna (Orpheum), Uncommon Women and Others (Second Stage Theater). Film: Caught (upcoming-currently at the LA Film Festival), The Green, Little Children, House of the Devil, The Spanish Prisoner, Things Change. Television: “The Blacklist,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Criminal Intent,” “Law and Order,” “Person of Interest,” “Mercy,” “Cashmere Mafia,” and “ER.”

Jason Ritter
Prairie du Chien: Listener, The Shawl: Charles
JASON RITTER. Theater: Third, The Distance From Here, The Beginning of August. Television: “Girls,” “Drunk History,” “Another Period,” “Parenthood,” “Gravity Falls,” “The Event,” “The Class,” “Joan of Arcadia,” Film: The Meddler, The Steps, Embers, 7 Minutes, You’re Not You, About Alex, Wild Canaries, Hits, The Big Ask, I Am I, The East, The Perfect Family, A Bag of Hammers, The Dry Land, Peter and Vandy, W., The Deal, Good Dick, The Education of Charlie Banks, Our Very Own, Happy Endings, Mumford.

Dereks Thomas
Prairie du Chien: Porter
DEREKS THOMAS. Regional: The Lily’s Revenge, The Light Princess, The Donkey Show (American Repertory Theater); Passing Strange (Studio Theatre); George & Martha, The Day John Henry Came to School (Imagination Stage); Twelfth Night, Final Cut, The 4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love-Suicide (ART/MXAT Institute). The Lodge (Washington Improv Theater). International: The Imaginary Invalid (Moscow Art Theatre/American Studio). Education: MFA Acting ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

David Mamet
Playwright
DAVID MAMET. Plays: Keep Your Pantheon (world premiere, Center Theatre Group 2008), Romance (world premiere Atlantic 2005, Mark Taper Forum), November, Boston Marriage, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross(1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life In The Theater, Speed-the-Plow, Edmond, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Woods, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). Translations and adaptations: The Voysey Inheritance by Harvey Granville-Barker, Red River by Pierre Laville and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov and Faustus. Films: The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/director), Hoffa, Wag the Dog, The Edge, The Winslow Boy (writer/director), Hannibal, State and Main (writer/director), Heist(writer/director), Spartan (writer/director), Redbelt (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks and Make-Believe Town, three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The China Man, a book of poems; Three Children’s Plays, On Directing Film, The Cabin and the novels The Village, The Old Religion and Wilson. His most recent books include the acting books, True and False and Three Uses of the Knife, The Wicked Son, and Bambi vs. Godzilla. Mr. Mamet was also a co-creator of the 4-season running, hit CBS television series “The Unit.” He is a co-founder and member of Atlantic Theater Company.

Scott Zigler
Director
SCOTT ZIGLER is an Atlantic founding member where he served as Artistic Director from 1989-1992 and was also Executive Director of Atlantic’s actor training program, Atlantic Acting School, where he continues to teach. Broadway: David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood (also world premiere at American Repertory Theater). Atlantic: World premiere of Tom Donaghy’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, David Mamet’s The Woods, company member Bill Wrubel’s world premiere of Suburban News, David Ives’ Sure Thing. National Tour: David Mamet’s Oleanna. Regional: Mamet’s plays: Glengarry Glen Ross (McCarter Theatre), Race (Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre and Philadelphia Theatre Company), November (Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum), The Cryptogram (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Alley Theatre) and Oleanna (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishman, Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, Robert William Sherwoods’ Absolution, Adam Rapp’s Animals and Plants (American Repertory Theater); Rebecca Gilman’s Spinning Into Butter (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Jon Robin Baitz’s A Fair Country (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Currently, Scott is Director of the American Repertory Theater’s Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, run in collaboration with the Moscow Art Theatre School. Co-author, A Practical Handbook for the Actor.

Lauren Helpern
Scenic Designer
LAUREN HELPERN. Atlantic: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Chimichangas and Zoloft, Missing Persons. Broadway: Voices in the Dark (Longacre Theater). Selected Off Broadway: Pocatello (Playwrights Horizons), Bad Jews (Roundabout), The Model Apartment and Poor Behavior(Primary Stages), 4000 Miles (LCT – Lortel Award, Hewes nomination), Disgraced (LCT3), Bethany (Women’s Project and Old Globe), BUG (Barrow Street – OBIE Award), The Irish Curse and Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse), Desperate Writers (Union Square), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD – Hewes nomination), and productions at MTC, Rattlestick, La Mama, Ars Nova, Cherry Lane, Theatreworks USA, and The Little Orchestra Society. Regional: Blue Man Group/Live at Luxor (Eddy Award), Always…Patsy Cline (Las Vegas and LA), Cleveland Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Theater J, and Anchorage Opera.

Linda Cho
Costume Designer
LINDA CHO. Linda Cho’s work can currently be seen on Broadway; Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder for which she received an Outer Critics Circle nomination and Tony Award for best costume design. Other New York credits include: Velocity of Autumn, Merchant of Venice for Theater for a New Audience, productions at Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Drama Department, and the Acting Company. Regionally her designs have been seen at LA Opera, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Guthrie, Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Shakespeare Theater DC, Oregon Shakespeare, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Opera, Opera Theater of Saint Louis. Internationally Cho has designed costumes at Royal Shakespeare Company in England; and Stratford Theater in Canada. Linda attended the Paris American Academy, McGill University (BA) and the Yale School of Drama (MFA).

Jeff Croiter
Lighting Designer
JEFF CROITER. Atlantic: The Voysey Inheritance; Human Error; Harper Regan. Broadway: Something Rotten!; Newsies; Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award); Mothers and Sons; A Time to Kill; Soul Doctor; Jekyll and Hyde; The Anarchist; The Performers; The Pee-wee Herman Show; Next Fall; Kiki and Herb. Other NYC: Parade; A Month in the Country; Fly By Night; Blank The Musical; Application Pending; Last Five Years; Much Ado About Nothing; King Lear; Love’s Labor’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park), Old Jews Telling Jokes; Silence; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Meet Vera Stark; Rapture Blister Burn; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Days; Family Guys Sings; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Jacques Brel; Almost Maine; The Dazzle; Jennifer Muller The Works. Jeff is a producer of “Submissions Only.”

J. David Brimmer
Violence Consultant
J. DAVID BRIMMER. Fight Master, SAFD. Broadway: Grace; An Enemy of the People; Hands on a Hardbody; The Big Knife; Wit; Born Yesterday; A Life in the Theatre; Speed-the-Plow; Come Back, Little Sheba; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; NY premieres: An Octoroon; Punk Rock; Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Blasted; The Whipping Man; Bethany; We are Proud to Present…; Harper Regan; Hit the Wall; Ages of the Moon; The American Pilot; Blackbird; Bug; Killer Joe; Red Bull Theater’s productions of The Revenger’s Tragedy and The Duchess of Malfi; Druid Theatre’s production of The Cripple of Inishmaan; Violence Consultant for the Donmar Warehouse’s productions of the all female Julius Caesar at St. Ann’s Warehouse and The Night Alive at Atlantic Theater, worked at some wonderful venues: The Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, Atlantic, LCT3, Women’s Project, Soho Rep, MCC, Signature Theatre, TFANA, Roundabout, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Stage, NSMT, A.R.T., Baltimore CenterStage, Yale Rep, Guthrie and with some great folks: David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Martin McDonagh, Tracy Letts, Kenneth Lonergan, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli. “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.”—G. Fox.

Jillian M. Oliver
Stage Manager
JILLIAN M. OLIVER. Broadway: Wit, Chinglish, A Life in the Theatre, Race, Speed-The-Plow, Off-Broadway: Harper Regan, Oohrah!, Body Awareness, Trumpery, Human Error, The Voysey Inheritance, Birth and After Birth (Atlantic Theater Company), A Month in the Country (CSC), Kung Fu, Old Hats, Medieval Play (Signature Theatre), Taking Care of Baby, Cradle and All(MTC) Why Torture is Wrong…, Conversations in Tusculum (The Public Theater), Regional: Productions at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guild Hall, Huntington Theatre Company and Boston Ballet. Graduate of Boston University.

Ellen Goldberg
Assistant Stage Manager
ELLEN GOLDBERG. Broadway: Gigi. Off-Broadway: A Month in the Country (Classic Stage Company); Kung Fu (Signature Theatre), Fun Home (The Public Theater), Irma La Douce (Encores!). Off-Off Broadway: I’m Pretty Fucked Up (Clubbed Thumb). Regional: Little Dancer (The Kennedy Center) and two seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Graduate of Fordham College at Lincoln Center.
Reviews
“Feel the full hypnotic pull of this playful drama! Mr. Lage and Mr. Howard speak with a quiet authority that demands that you lean in to listen! Mr. Mamet’s way with words identifies the method behind the
verbal magic!”
the new york times
“Evocatively staged by Scott Zigler, the work is consistently engrossing! an intriguing atmospheric piece that benefits greatly from Arliss Howard’s understated performance!”
the hollywood reporter
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