Found
book by HUNTER BELL & LEE OVERTREE
music and original lyrics by ELI BOLIN
based on the Found books and magazines by DAVY ROTHBART
additional material created in collaboration with STORY PIRATES
directed by LEE OVERTREE
Linda Gross Theater
September 18 – November 9, 2014
Found isn’t just based on a true story, it’s based on hundreds of them. From the Tony-nominated co-creator of [title of show] and the creative team of the nationally renowned Story Pirates, Atlantic Theater Company is proud to present this vibrant new musical.
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Found was created from scores of surprising and eccentric discarded notes and letters that have been “found” in the real world by everyday people. Inspired by actual events, the show follows Davy who, along with his two best friends, is lost and broke. When he finds a strangely revealing note on his windshield meant for someone else, it sparks an outlandish idea that finds him and his compatriots on a wild, comedic journey. This raucous and insightful new musical tells a story of ambition, betrayal and loyalty while celebrating the weirdness in all of us.
Cast & Creative
Christina Anthony
Christina
CHRISTINA ANTHONY makes her Off-Broadway and New York debut. She is best known as an alumna of The Second City, where as a writer/performer she co- wrote three original revues for the e.t.c.’s resident stage: The Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life (Jeff Award nominee, Actress in a Revue), Studs Terkel’s Not Working (Jeff Award winner, Best Revue) and Brother Can You Spare Some Change (Top 5 Female Performances, Newcity). As an actor/improviser, she has appeared at Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, New York Stage & Film, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Paper Machete, eta Creative Arts, Black Ensemble Theater, iO West, Upright Citizens Brigade, Barrel of Monkeys, Story Pirates and Congo Square Theatre Company. TV/film: “Key & Peele” Comedy Central, TJ Miller’s standup/sketch hybrid “Mash Up” (Comedy Central), “Totally Biased” (FXX), “ER” (NBC) and The Dilemma (Universal Pictures).
Nick Blaemire
Davy
NICK BLAEMIRE. Broadway: Godspell, Cry-Baby, Glory Days (Music and Lyrics). Tour: Altar Boyz (1st National). Off Broadway: Dogfight (Second Stage), The Black Suits (SPF @ The Public). Regional: The Last Goodbye (Williamstown), Bring it On (Alliance), James Lapine’s Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Vineyard Playhouse), Lil’s 90th (Long Wharf). Film: Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, Gods Behaving Badly, Assassination of a High School President, Beach Pillows. Television: “The Big C,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order: CI,” “Zero Hour,” “Believe,” “Crossbones,” “Guiding Light.” Composer: Glory Days (Signature Theatre and Circle in the Square), A Little More Alive (Kansas City Rep), Soon (Signature Theatre upcoming in 2015), Fallout (new commission with Kyle Jarrow). Proud Graduate of University of Michigan. Love to Ani and Leo McGarry.
Andrew Call
Andrew
ANDREW CALL. Broadway: Rock of Ages, American Idiot, Cry-Baby,Glory Days, High Fidelity. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz. Proud to be making my ATC debut! Many thanks to everyone at Stewart and Station 3. A very special thank you to Rachel Hoffman.
Daniel Everidge
Mikey D
DANIEL EVERIDGE is loving Atlantic Theater Company and feels very lucky and honored to be a part of such a wonderful show. Broadway: Grease (Roger). Off-Broadway: Falling (Josh, Drama Desk, Lortel nominations), Fat Camp (Robert). The Metropolitan Opera’s Die Fledermaus (Ivan u/s). Regional: Falling (Josh, Meadow Brook Theatre, Andes Award winner), HMS Pinafore and Camelot (Utah Shakespearean Festival). Film: Inside Llewyn Davis (Irish singer). Graduate of North East School of the Arts in San Antonio, TX and Otterbein University. Thank you to my family, friends, and Molly.
Orville Mendoza
Orville
ORVILLE MENDOZA. Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (Alex Timbers & Roger Rees, co-directors), Pacific Overtures (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Passion (Classic Stage Co., John Doyle, dir.), Timon of Athens (The Public Theater), Road Show (The Public Theater, John Doyle, dir.), Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte, Michael Greif, dir.), Adrift in Macao (Drama Desk Award nomination, Primary Stages, Sheryl Kaller, dir.), The Seagull (National Asian American Theatre Co.), Ivanov (NAATCO & The Mint), Rashomon (Pan-Asian Rep); Regional: The Orphan of Zhao (American Conservatory Theatre & La Jolla Playhouse, Carey Perloff, dir.), also work at Long Wharf Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Kansas City Rep., Goodspeed, The Muny, Pittsburgh CLO, Laguna Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre. Toured with 2nd National Company of Miss Saigon for 5 1/2 years. www.orvillemendoza.com
Betsy Morgan
Kate
BETSY MORGAN. Broadway (original casts): Les Misérables (2014 revival), A Little Night Music (revival), The Little Mermaid, High Fidelity. Off-Broadway (original casts): The Fantasticks (2006 revival), Bernarda Alba (LCT). National tour: Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!. Regional: created the roles of Leslie Benedict in Giant and Tricia Nixon in First Daughter Suite, both by Michael John LaChiusa. TV: “Flight of the Conchords” (HBO). Education: B.F.A. from Emerson College.
Molly Pope
Molly
MOLLY POPE. Solo/cabaret: Molly Pope, Okay?, Introducing Molly Pope, The Molly Pope Show, The Diva-Lution of Molly Pope (Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, Laurie Beechman Theater, Adelaide Cabaret Festival- Australia), Downtown Series (Feinstein’s), Our Hit Parade (Joe’s Pub), Tales From the Jazz Age (Café Carlyle). Stage: Dan Fishback’s The Material World (Dixon Place), Wonderful Town (Gallery Players). TV: “Law & Order: SVU.” Education: BFA from NYU. www.mollypope.com
Danny Pudi
Danny
DANNY PUDI can currently be seen on the Yahoo! comedy “Community,” previously on NBC. #sixseasonsandamovie. Other TV credits include “Royal Pains,” “Chuck,” “ER,” “Hot in Cleveland” and “Gilmore Girls.” Film credits include The Tiger Hunter, Vijay and I and The Pretty One. Earlier this year, Danny’s short film Untucked, a documentary for ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Pudi began his career in Chicago where he studied at The Second City. On stage he performs regularly with Siblings of Doctors, a trio of Indian-American comedians. This is his NYC Off-Broadway debut. Thanks to the ATC family, the Pudi family and dreams.
Sandy Rustin
Sandy
SANDY RUSTIN is an actress, playwright and mom. Her Off-Broadway musical Rated P (for parenthood), is in development for TV with ABC Studios/ABC Family. Sandy regularly appears in UCB’s Gravid Water (Best Improv Show, Time Out NY). Other New York credits include Modern Orthodox (New World Stages); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Westside Theatre); Jolson & Company (Century Center); Sarah, Plain and Tall (Lucille Lortel); and Neil Simon’s Hotel Suite (Roundabout). TV: “The Amy Schumer Show,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “As the World Turns,” “All My Children” and “Guiding Light.” Recent new works: The Cottage (2014 Reva Shiner Comedy Award finalist) & the web series “Overbooked” (Nickelodeon/Nick Mom). Northwestern University graduate. Artistic Director of Midtown Direct Rep. www.sandyrustin.com. @sandyrustin
Barrett Wilbert Weed
Denise
BARRETT WILBERT WEED. Broadway: Lysistrata Jones. Off-Broadway: Bare (Nadia), Heathers (Veronica Sawyer, Lucille Lortel/Drama Desk award nominations). Graduate of The Walnut Hill School and Elon University. Thanks to Andi Metts, Mother Darling, my stone cold pack of weirdos and to my teachers for encouraging the kind voices in my head and shushing the mean ones.
Hunter Bell
Book
HUNTER BELL. Obie Award, Drama League nomination, Tony nomination for the original Broadway musical [title of show]. Other credits include the books for Now. Here. This. (Vineyard Theatre), Silence! The Musical, Bellobration! (Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus), Villains Tonight! (Disney Cruise Lines) and Julie Andrews’ The Great American Mousical. Hunter is a graduate and distinguished alumnus of Webster University Conservatory of Theatre Arts, a MacDowell Fellow and a member of the Dramatists and Writers Guilds. @huntbell
Lee Overtree
Director, Book
LEE OVERTREE has served as Artistic Director of Story Pirates since he co-founded the organization in 2003. His productions have been presented at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, Solid Sound Festival (curated by the band Wilco), Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival in Seattle and at dozens of theatres in New York including at Symphony Space, Ars Nova, Dixon Place, Galapagos and the Upright Citizens Brigade. Other writing/directing credits include productions for major publishing houses, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Lee hosts and directs the weekly Sirius/XM show Story Pirates Radio. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University. Special thanks to everyone from Found Magazine and all the Story Pirates who contributed to this piece over the years.
Eli Bolin
Music and Original Lyrics
ELI BOLIN is music director of Story Pirates, which performs songs and sketches adapted from the creative writing of children all over the country. New York: Volleygirls (NYMF 2013 Best of Fest and Most Promising New Musical), Skippyjon Jones (Lucille Lortel nomination), I Sing! (York). Regional: Roller Disco (A.R.T.), Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown). TV: “Sesame Street,” “Billy on the Street,” “Kristen Schaal Live at the Fillmore” and “Comedy Central Presents: Kristen Schaal.” As an actor, Eli appeared on NBC’s “30 Rock” as a member of the Woggels. He is the oneman house band for the podcast “Ask Roulette” and the improv show Clanging (with Josh Radnor and Dion Flynn). Eli is a graduate of Northwestern and a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild and is represented by Abrams Artists. Endless love to Allison and Baby Walter. elibolin.net
Monica Bill Barnes
Choreographer
MONICA BILL BARNES is a choreographer and performer and the Artistic Director of Monica Bill Barnes & Company, a New York City-based contemporary dance company. MBB & CO has performed in more than 50 cities throughout the United States; been commissioned and presented by The American Dance Festival, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival; and performed all over New York City in venues ranging from Upright Citizens Brigade to BAM Opera House. Monica began working with Ira Glass in 2012 when she created a solo for David Rakoff as a part of This American Life Live! She continued to collaborate with Ira to create, choreograph and direct a show that combines radio stories and dances, Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host. Currently, Monica is creating a new show, Up, up and away with her dancing partner, Anna Bass, and collaborating with Maira Kalman to create a guided museum workout. Monica is thrilled to be back at Atlantic Theater working with this wonderful group.
David Korins
Scenic Designer
DAVID KORINS. Atlantic: Farragut North. Broadway: Motown, Annie, Bring It On, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Chinglish, An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Magic/Bird, Godspell, The Peewee Herman Show, Lombardi, Passing Strange and Bridge & Tunnel. Extensive work both Off-Broadway and regionally. His most recent Off-Broadway shows include Fly by Night (Playwrights Horizons) and Here Lies Love (Public Theater). Upcoming: Hamilton (The Public Theater). David served as Kanye West’s creative director, designing several concerts in the US and abroad. He is the recipient of a Drama Desk Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, three Henry Hewes Awards and an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design. davidkorinsdesign.com
Theresa Squire
Costume Designer
THERESA SQUIRE designs costumes for theatre, dance and film. Theresa has designed many shows here at the Atlantic Theater Company including The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Make Me and Dusk Rings a Bell among others. Theresa has also designed for MCC Theater, most recently Small Engine Repair at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, as well as The Signature Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, 2nd Stage, Keen Company, The Hourglass Group including The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Barrow Street Theatre, The Flying Machine, Cherry Lane, Epic Theatre Company, DR2 Kids Theatre, iTheatrics (national tours), Chautauqua Theatre Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, Tami Stronach Dance, Parsons Dance, Irish Rep most recently Man and Superman, The New Group including Rafta, Rafta… and Soho Rep including Blasted. Her costumes were seen on Broadway in High Fidelity and The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
Justin Townsend
Lighting Designer
JUSTIN TOWNSEND. Broadway: Casa Valentina, A Night with Janis Joplin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Other Place, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Outer Critics Circle and Henry Hewes nominations). Off-Broadway: Here Lies Love (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Lincoln Center Theater); Mr.Burns, a Post-Electric Play, Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons); The Other Place (MCC Theater); Unnatural Acts (Lortel nom.), Galileo (Classic Stage Co.); Monstrosity (13P); Opus (Primary Stages); Speech and Debate (Roundabout); The Treatment (Culture Project); Beauty on the Vine, Palace of the End, Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven (Epic Theatre). New York: Drums of the Waves of the Horikawa (Theatre of a Two Headed Calf). Regional: The Onion Cellar (American Repertory Theater, Elliot Norton Award), The Blue Flower (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award, IRNE Award), Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library, Helen Hayes nom.), Apollo (Douglas Theatre, Ovation nom.). Awards: 2014 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design. www.justintownsend.com
Ken Travis
Sound Designer
KEN TRAVIS. Broadway: Aladdin, Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Story the Musical, Scandalous, Newsies, Memphis, The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, Steel Magnolias. Numerous New York and regional theatres and companies including The Old Globe, 5th Avenue Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, L.A. Center Theatre Group, A.C.T. Seattle, Guthrie Theater, KC Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Playwrights Horizons, The New Group, The Public Theater, CSC, Signature Theatre NYC, Soho Rep, Vineyard Theatre, The Civilians, Mabou Mines and national and international festivals and tours. Sound engineer for numerous international music acts.
Darrel Maloney
Projection Designer
DARREL MALONEY has designed for broadcast, concerts, film and theatre. Broadway: American Idiot, A Night with Janis Joplin, Everyday Rapture. Off-Broadway: Checkers (Vineyard Theatre, Drama Desk nomination), Kung Fu, Golden Child (Signature Theatre), The Village Bike, The Submission (MCC) Bikeman (Tribeca Performing Arts Center), Masks Outrageous and Austere (Culture Project), Tokio Confidential (Atlantic Stage 2). Others designs include Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Legends (144th edition), Harmony (Ahmanson, CTG), The Shape She Makes (A.R.T.), Allegiance (Old Globe), Hughie (Shakespeare Theatre), Surf (Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas), Karen O’s Stop the Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse and Sydney Opera House), The Submission (MCC), SCKBSTD (Virginia Stage), The Elephant Man (Minnesota Opera) as well as lighting and projections for Peer Gynt (La Jolla Playhouse and Kansas City Rep.). Darrel is also the founder of the design and production studio “the 13th,” and serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama. www.darrelmaloney.com
Frank Galgano & Matt Castle
Orchestrations
FRANK GALGANO & MATT CASTLE are overjoyed to be making their Atlantic Theater Company debuts with Found. Together, Frank and Matt have orchestrated new musicals for The Kennedy Center, A.C.T., Fiasco Theater, The Old Globe, McCarter Theatre, York Theatre, Theatreworks USA, George Street Playhouse, Sacramento Theatre Company and The Waterfront Playhouse as well as specialty numbers for Kristin Chenoweth (Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Carnegie Hall), Randy Newman (Davies Hall), Debra Monk (BC/EFA), Adam Gwon (54 Below), William Finn (Amas Musical Theatre) and more. Upcoming projects include Into the Woods (Roundabout), Gabi Goes Green (George Street Playhouse), The Trials of Alice in Wonderland (Pioneer Drama Service) and sequels to Junie B. Jones and Skippyjon Jones (Theatreworks USA).
Matt Castle
Music Director
MATT CASTLE has played, sung, directed and/or developed more than 75 new musicals at Sundance Institute, New York University, Playwrights Horizons, York Theatre Company, NAMT, Barrington Stage Company, Weston Playhouse, Waterfront Playhouse, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Signature Theatre Company, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Theatreworks USA, and CAP21. Other New York and regional credits include Transport Group, Mark Taper Forum, Cape Playhouse and the New York workshops of Just in Time and My Life Is a Musical. He has played for many cabarets and specialty acts, most recently Robert Creighton on Disney Cruise Lines. As an actor/musician, Matt performed in the 2007 Broadway revival of Company; the original Off-Broadway casts of The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), Enter Laughing and LingoLand; and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s Company and Merrily We Roll Along. Upcoming projects include Into the Woods (as musical director and co-orchestrator) at Roundabout; a chamber music recording with Emerald Trio (as pianist); and the workshop of Terry Quinn & Tom Wallace’s Songs of Loss & Love (as director).
Michael Aarons
Music Coordinator
MICHAEL AARONS. Michael’s performing and recording credits include artists such as Placido Domingo, Barry Manilow, Joshua Bell, James Ingram, Michael McDonald, Elton John, Ray Charles, Luther Vandross, Liza Minnelli and many more. Guitarist and/or in-house contractor: Kinky Boots, Evita, Godspell, Baby It’s You!, American Idiot, Memphis and more. Associate music coordinator: Kinky Boots, Honeymoon in Vegas, Amazing Grace Michael did additional guitar arrangements for Next to Normal. His TV and film music production company, Hybrid Music Productions, has composed and/or licensed original music for “Sesame Street,” Style, CNBC, Lifetime, Oxygen, ABC, OWN, GAP, Nike and other networks and brands worldwide. Anya and Harper make it all possible. Michael is thrilled to be working with the talented people of Found.
Christian Parker
Dramaturg
CHRISTIAN PARKER recently stepped down as Associate Artistic Director at the Atlantic after nearly 13 years with the company. He is thrilled to be back so soon. At Atlantic he collaborated closely with Neil Pepe on programming and producing the season and oversaw commissioning and new play development. He also directed several times for the company, including The Hiding Place by Jeff Whitty, Arrangements by Ken Weitzman, Birth and After Birth by Tina Howe and Make Me by Leslie Ayvazian, as well as several short plays in 10×20 and 10×25. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Graduate Theatre Program at Columbia University, where he oversees the concentration in Dramaturgy. He has also worked directing and developing plays at Sundance Theatre Lab, the O’Neill Center, The Lark, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Keen Company, P73, LAByrinth Theater Company and Soho Rep, among others. He began his career as the Literary Manager at Manhattan Theatre Club, and holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. from Columbia.
Mark Dobrow
Production Stage Manager
MARK DOBROW is proud to be making his Atlantic Theater Company debut and thrilled to part of the Found team. Broadway: Holler If Ya Hear Me, Mamma Mia!, End of the Rainbow, Mary Poppins, Ring of Fire,Chicago (current revival), Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera. Roundabout Theatre: Machinal. Lincoln Center Theater: Thou Shalt Not, In the Summer House, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun. National tours: The Producers, The Phantom of the Opera. Regional: End of the Rainbow (Guthrie & Ahmanson), White Christmas (Paper Mill Playhouse), Ring of Fire (Studio Arena Theatre). Workshops: Super Fly (2013); Pan (2011). Events: Stephen Sondheim’s 75th Birthday Celebration (2005); Into the Woods (10th Anniversary Benefit Concert).
Sarah Michelle Howell
Assistant Stage Manager
SARAH MICHELLE HOWELL is grateful for the opportunity to work with this unbelievably entertaining team! Off-Broadway: Bedlam’s Hamlet & Saint Joan. NYC: United Solo Festival (The Bronx Queen). Regional: Guthrie Theater (End of the Rainbow, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Christmas Carol, Birds, Edge of Our Bodies, Embers), Utah Shakespeare Festival (Mary Stuart, To Kill a Mockingbird). Tour: Million Dollar Quartet, Sesame Street Live! (Elmo Makes Music, 123 Imagine!).
Reviews
“Gloriously strange, delightfully weird, cleverly hilarious! A lively, likable and endearing new musical!”
the new york times
“A delight! Found is the first emotionally satisfying musical for the post-bust generation. The wildness never lets up!”
new york magazine
“Look no further: Found is here! A welcome edge of surreal authenticity. A sharp ensemble. Rollicking, ingenious showstoppers! The best date-night show of the season!”
New york post
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