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Brando, the tough-guy swagger of his productions masks an achingly sentimental heart. He might be a

contender yet.” – � e New York Times

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the aMORalists PResentthe wORlD PReMieRe PRODUctiOn OF

COLLISION

by lyle kessleR

DiRecteD by DaviD FOFi

January 10 - February 17, 2013

Rattlestick Playwrights theater

224 waverly Place

www.theamoralists.com

COLLISIONby

lyle kessleR

DiRecteD by DaviD FOFi

Set present day in a dormitory in an American college.

100 minutes. No intermission.

THE CAST(listed in order of appearance)

James Kautz …............................................................. GRANGENick Lawson …............................................................ BROMLEYAnna Stromberg …................................................................ DOEMichael Cullen ......................................... PROFESSOR DENTONCraig ‘muMs’ Grant …........................................................ RENEL

THE CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM

Judy Merrick PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERMichael J. Kessler ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Alfred Schatz SET DESIGNEREvan Roby LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jaime Torres COSTUME DESIGNERPhil Carluzzo SOUND DESIGNER

Judy Merrick PROPS MASTERJerrod Bogard ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Dan Stern SECOND ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERAmanda McDowall ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER

Jaime Torres + Amanda McDowall WARDROBE SUPERVISORSDerek Ahonen PRODUCER

Matt Pilieci PRODUCERKelcie Beene PRODUCER

Form Theatricals (Anthony Francavilla + Zachary Laks) PRODUCER/GENERAL MANAGERCaroline Hendrix PRODUCERDenyse Owens PRODUCER

Jeremy Duncan Pape PRODUCTION MANAGERMackenzie Knapp ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER

Matt Hamilton SOCIAL MEDIA ASSOCIATEMelissa Ximena MARKETING ASSOCIATEDavid Gibbs/DARR Publicity PRESS REPDanica Novgorodoff SHOW ARTWORK

Christopher Lanceley WEBSITEKevin McAleer GRAPHIC DESIGN

Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans has been an international success in almost every country in the world since its Steppenwolf Theater Production in Chicago and New York. Albert Finney starred in London’s West End production. Orphans will be produced on Broadway in March 2013, starring Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf, directed by Dan Sullivan. Other plays include The Watering Place, Possession, Robbers, Unlisted and The Great Divide, which was read at the Labyrinth Theater’s Barn Series this season. His films include Orphans, Gladiator, The Saint of Fort Washington and Touched, which he co-starred in. Mr. Kessler studied acting with Lee Strasberg and is a member of the Actors Studio and Labyrinth Theater Company. He served as the Director of the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab. He and Mark Rydell co-moderated the Playwright/Directors Unit of the Actors Studio West for eleven years before Mr. Kessler moved back to New York this past year with his wife, actress Margaret Ladd.

David Fofi is the Artistic Director of the Elephant Theatre Company, founded in 1995 in downtown Los Angeles. In 1998, along with Don Cesario, he created Elephant Stages and the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, where The Elephant Theatre Company now makes its home. His directing credits include the World Premiere of Farm Boy (Los Angeles Times Critics Choice, Back Stage Critic’s Pick), the West Coast Premiere of Sam Shepard’s The Late Henry Moss (Back Stage Critic’s Pick), the West Coast Premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Little Flower of East Orange (Ovation Recommended), Guirgis’ In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (4 LADCC Awards including Best Production, LA Times and Back Stage Critic’s Pick) and the World Premiere of Mark Roberts’ Parasite Drag (Ovation Recommended, Back Stage and LA Weekly Critic’s Pick).

Michael Cullen Stage: Cobb (Lucille Lortel Theatre - Drama Desk Award, Best Ensemble); Bug (Barrow Street Theatre - OBIE Award); Len,

Asleep, In Vinyl (Second Stage Theater); Dark Matters (Rattlestick Theatre); One Shot, One Kill (Primary Stages); The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theater). Regional theatres: Actors Theatre of Louiseville, Denver Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Penguin Theater, Buffalo Studio Arena. TV: All three “Law & Order”s, “Life on Mars,” “Ed,” “Third Watch,” “New York Undercover.” Film: Margot at the Wedding, Dead Man Walking, Malcolm X, Clockers.

Craig ‘muMs’ Grant is very much excited about his first production with The Amoralists. muMs is known for his role on the HBO show OZ.

He has been seen in Last Days of Judas Iscariot and A View from 151st Street, both first productions at the Public Theater. muMs is a member of the Labyrinth Theater Company.

James Kautz’s theatre credits with The Amoralists include: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, The Bad and the Better, Happy in the

Poorhouse, HotelMotel and Adam Rapp’s Ghosts In the Cottonwoods. Also with Rapp, The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick). Also, Dedalus Lounge and Nobody Suspects a Butterfly (Royal Family) and Hamlet in HAMLET-Prince of Denmark (Mortals Theatre).

Nick Lawson is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He studied Commedia Dell’Arte, Burlesque and Vaudeville in

France with John Rudlin, in Italy at Antonio Fava’s International School of Physical Comedy, and at The American Mime Theater in New York. Credits include The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side (PS 122/Theater 80), Happy in the Poorhouse (PS122/Theater 80), Amerissiah (Theater 80), Ghosts in the Cottonwoods (Theater 80), The Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Squeeler (Theater For the New City), HotelMotel (Gershwin Hotel), and The Bad and the Better (The Peter Jay Sharp Theater). He has been a member of The Amoralists for a very long time and he loves them like family.

Anna Stromberg trained in Seattle and NYC, where she’s been living for the past five years. After graduating from The American Academy of Dramatic

Arts, she was introduced to The Amoralists and auditioned for the company the very next chance she got. She was in their last three shows: Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, HotelMotel, and The Bad and the Better. She has also done several shows at Linda Lavin’s Redbarn Theatre in NC. Thanks to the whole family for all the love.

Judy Merrick was most recently seen in The Amoralists’ The Bad and the Better by Derek Ahonen as Connie. Past Amoralists credits included: The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, Happy in the Poorhouse, Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, Pokin the Bears in a Zoo, Amerissiah, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, and HotelMotel as both props master and Production Stage Manager. PA, scenic artist, props assistant on The Hallway Trilogy, Asuncion, Horse

Dreams, Yosemite and Massacre, all with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Assistant Director to Daniel Aukin on the Obie Award-winning play 4000 Miles at Lincoln Center. Award-winning director with Zombie Girl and Float with End Times Productions. Actress/company member of Wide Eyed Productions in Noah’s Arkansas, The Trojan Women, Early Michigan, and A Girl Wrote It. Has performed in various roles with Nosedive, End Times, and Mortals Theater Company. Favorite role was Trish in the play Knuckleball, which appeared in the Iowa, New York, San Francisco (Best of Fringe) and Edinburgh Fringes. Much love to her family and Sky for all the love and support. BFA from USC in LA and AADA in NY.

Michael Kessler has a background in music and writing and is honored to work with The Amoralists on Collision.

Alfred Schatz is a Brooklyn-based artist with a fine arts degree from Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is the Resident Set Designer and Associate Director of Production with The Amoralists Theatre Company. His theater credits include design work for the critically acclaimed The Pied Pipers Of The Lower East Side, Happy in the Poorhouse, Amerissiah, Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter and Adam Rapp’s re-staging of Ghosts in the Cottonwoods. Additionally, he has designed shows for Wide Eyed Productions’ The Trojan Women and Camisade Theatre Company’s inaugural production of Samuel Brett Williams’ Derby Day. Most recently he has worked on two of The Amoralists’ most successful plays; HotelMotel and The Bad and the Better.

Evan Roby After graduating from Vassar in 2010, Evan spent a year in Denver, working with Paragon Theatre, the Curious Theater, and the Aurora Fox. He interned with Ko Theater festival in Amherst last summer. Since arriving in New York, he has worked

with Movement Theater Company, The Astoria Performing Arts Center, and End Times Productions. Recent design credits include Red, The Wall, Enter Your Sleep, Chlamydia Dell’arte, Reasons to be Pretty, and Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2012.

Jaime Torres is honored to be working with The Amoralists for a second time. A recent graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA in Fashion Design, Jaime has worked on various Broadway and Off Broadway shows and is ecstatic to make his professional theater debut as a head designer with Collision.

Phil Carluzzo is a composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist living and working in New York City. He has worked extensively scoring restored vintage silent films for both international DVD release and for a 2011 CD release on Naxos Records. His music has been performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress. Recent notable theater credits include: Heartless (2012; associate sound design; Sam Shepard; Signature Theater), The Bad and the Better (2012; The Amoralists; Dir: Daniel Aukin), HotelMotel (2011; The Amoralists; Adam Rapp), The Hallway Trilogy (2011; associate sound design; Adam Rapp). He completed a doctorate in music composition in 2011.

Jerrod Bogard, a graduate of Florida School of the Arts and Brooklyn College, began as a puppeteer for Bits ‘N Pieces Puppet Theatre. Written, directed and performed productions for children and adults throughout the U.S. and Europe and taught workshops on improvisation and classical theatre styles. As a playwright and librettist, produced in LA, Chicago, New York and internationally. Works published by Samuel French, Smith & Krause, and the New York Theatre Experience. Member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Visit him at www.inkythumbs.com.

Dan Stern is proud and extremely happy to be working with The Amoralists once again and for the first time as a company member. Before performing in The Bad and the Better, Dan assistant stage managed Happy in the Poorhouse at Theatre 80 on St. Marks and stage managed Amerissiah, also at Theatre 80. Special thanks to his family.

Amanda McDowall is thrilled to be working with The Amoralists on this great production. A recent graduate of the University at Buffalo with a BFA in Theatre, Amanda has worked at various Off Broadway theatres both on- and off-stage. Current employee of Juilliard and teaching artist at Harlem School of the Arts.

Derek Ahonen is a Co-Founder and the Resident Playwright of The Amoralists. He has written these shows for The Amoralists: The Bad and the Better, Like the Fog to the Sun, Pink Knees on Pale Skin, Happy in the Poorhouse, The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, Amerissiah, Pokin’ the Bears in a Zoo, Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, and While Chasing the Fantastic.

Kelcie Beene is The Amoralists’ Director of Ensemble & Audience Development. Amoralists producing credits include: The Bad and the Better (The Peter Jay Sharp); HotelMotel (The Gershwin Hotel); Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter (PS 122); Ghosts in the Cottonwoods (Theatre 80 St. Mark’s); and The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side/Happy in the Poorhouse REDUX (PS122). Other producing credits include: Herman Kline’s Midlife Crisis (At Play, Theatre Row); The Arden Project (Old Vic New Voices, 3LD); You’re Invited (Showcase at the Old Vic Theatre, London); Al’s Business Cards (At Play, Theatre Row). Kelcie is also a Producing Member of The 24 Hour Company. She has produced The 24 Hour Plays or Musicals in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Dublin.

Anthony Francavilla is a recipient of the GLAAD Award for Best NY Theatre and was recently described by Bloomberg News as an “impresario.” Artistically, his productions have been lauded as “nasty, weird and uncomfortably funny” (Oliver Parker, Time Out New York) and “thoughtful and sensitive” (When Last We Flew, Time Out New York). His producing credits include Oliver Parker (starring John Larroquette and Johanna Day); When Last We Flew (GLAAD Media Award 2011 - Best NY Theater, 4 Stars - Time Out New York); And She Said, He Said, I Said Yes (Joe’s Pub); The Living Newspaper (Joe’s Pub, American Repertory Theatre); Erotic Broadway at the Triad (starring Brenda Braxton, Nick Smoke, Jennifer Cody and John Selya); The Importance of Marrying Wells (Best Play, Theatre Web); The Fartiste (Outstanding Musical, Fringe NYC 2006); Semi-Permanent (Outstanding Solo-Show, Fringe NYC 2007); Platforms (Outstanding Choreography, NYMF 2007); and Fell (FringeNYC 2008; 4 Stars, Time Out New York). Anthony is the author of the Off-Broadway Alliance’s Economic Impact Report. His professional memberships include the Broadway League (Adjunct Member) and Mensa. He was personally awarded the President’s Award for Academic Excellence by President Clinton and President Bush. Currently Anthony is a Dean’s Fellow in Columbia University’s Theatre Management and Producing MFA Program.

Zachary Laks is the co-founder of TheaterU and proud partner of Form Theatricals, an innovative consulting firm for the Off and Off Off scene. Zach has held numerous positions at a variety of performing arts organizations around the country, most notably at 59E59 Theaters, the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Center, Santa Fe Opera, and The Goodman Theater. zl@formtheatricals.com

Caroline Hendrix is The Amoralists’

Managing Director and coordinates events and communications strategy for the British Consulate New York. Previously, she worked in development at The New 42nd Street/New Victory Theater. She has planned events and coordinated marketing/fundraising strategy for projects including The Amoralists, Trickle Up, Trusty Sidekick Theatre Company, Preview of the Arts and When Last We Flew at the 2010 NYC Fringe Festival.

Denyse Owens is The Amoralists’ Director of Development. She is also the Manager of Institutional Giving at Theatre Development Fund and a Branding Consultant for terraNova Collective. She has also worked with 2g, IRT, The Working Theatre and the Lee Strasberg Institute in development or as a director. Denyse is proud to be an Amoralist and join them on this wild ride.

Jeremy Duncan Pape holds a BFA in acting (‘04) from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and an MFA in directing (‘12) from the New School for Drama. Recent directing credits include his new adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck at NSD and William Whitehurst’s Knuckleball, which won best drama and best overall production at the San Francisco Fringe in 2008. In addition, he recently acted as assistant director for the The Amoralists’ Amerrisiah as well as Hamlet with the Brooklyn Stage Company. Jeremy performed design work for the The Amoralists’ critically acclaimed 2008-2011 seasons at PS 122 and Theater 80 as well as White Rabbit’s award winning Meredith’s Ring (best one-act or short play, Planet Connections, ’09). From 2006-2010 he was the Associate Artistic Director and Technical Director of End Times Productions, a Manhattan-based production company. Currently, Jeremy is the Production Manager for the The Amoralists.

Matt Hamilton has recently begun working closely with The Amoralists and he couldn’t

be more excited. He is also a Market-ing and Outreach Associate for Concrete Temple Theatre, (concretetempletheatre.com), bringing puppetry and social edu-cation to both children and adults in the greater metropolitan area. At night he can be found playing the Devil’s Music with his band Barons in the Attic, (wearethebarons.com) or portraying some version of a barfly in Project: Theater’s monthly sketch series, Our Bar (ourbarnyc.com). Melissa Ximena is a freelance writer and playwright based in NYC. She is grateful to work with The Amoralists as she makes her transition to a full-time writer.

David Gibbs’ clients include The Amoralists, Company XIV, Ice Factory Festival, La MaMa, The Mad Ones, the New Ohio Theatre, PTP/NYC, The Queen’s Company, The Riot Group, terraNOVA Collective, Two-Headed Calf and Wakka Wakka Productions. David has publicized shows at Rattlestick, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Atlantic Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Theatre Row, New World Stages, The Flea, Walkerspace, HERE, PS 122, Soho Playhouse, The Town Hall & the NY Int’l Fringe Festival. www.darrpublicity.com

Christopher Lanceley had no strong feelings about what he wanted to be when he grew up until he broke his nose one day at school in 1997 and Mr. Turner told him he was now too ugly to be an actor. To spite him he fought his way into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, where he starred in a number of shows around the country. Maliciously, he moved across an ocean from his Liverpool home to train as an ugly actor at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where you find him today. As well as his work with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, he has taken a number of TV roles in the UK including “I’m A Juvenile Delinquent,” directed by Alex Cox for the BBC. More recently he was in films The Day, appearing at Cannes Short Film

Corner in 2011, and Terminus, touring festivals this year. Theatre credits include Chun Li! at Theatre Row and The Band at the Soho Theatre. Proudly, he played John March in The Bad and the Better, earning his stripes as an Amoralist. Thank you, Mr. Turner.

Kevin McAleer is a freelance graphic designer (kevinmcaleerdesign.com) and songwriter (soundcloud.com/kevinmacmusic), as well as the digital media coordinator at the British Consulate-General in New York. He has previously done work for advertising agency Serino Coyne, Penn Singers Light Opera Company, Penn Players, Counterparts acapella group, as well as De Beers Diamond Jewellers.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence.www.actorsequity.org

RATTLESTICK STAFF

David Van Asselt ARTISTIC DIRECTORBrian Long MANAGING DIRECTORLori Singleton FINANCE MANAGER

Eugenia Furneaux PRODUCTION MANAGERMeagan Sawyer MARKETING DIRECTOR

Emily Daly DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORLisa Anderson, Rosa Gilmore, Christina Hurtado-Pierson, Samantha Levitt, Samantha

Strelitz MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATESDenis Butkus, Julie Kline, Daniel Talbott LITERARY MANAGERS

Brian Miskell, Diana Stahl, Sanford Wilson LITERARY ASSOCIATESJennifer Bishop, Katie Johnson, Adriana Jones ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNS

WHO THE HELL ARE “THE AMORALISTS?”

The Amoralists is a theatre company that produces work of no moral judgment. Dedicated to an honest expression of the American condition, our ensemble explores complex characters of moral ambiguity, plunging the depths of the social, political, spiritual and sexual characteristics of human nature. Rollicking rebellious and raw, our work will go home with

you.

THE EXECUTIVE TEAM

James Kautz ARTISTIC DIRECTORDerek Ahonen ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR + RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT

Matthew Pilieci ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTORCaroline Hendrix MANAGING DIRECTOR

Kelcie Beene DIRECTOR OF ENSEMBLE + AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENTForm Theatricals (Anthony Francavilla + Zachary Laks) GENERAL MANAGER

Denyse Owens DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENTMatt Hamilton SOCIAL MEDIA ASSOCIATE

Melissa Ximena MARKETING + PR ASSOCIATEJeremy Duncan Pape PRODUCTION MANAGER

Sean Bauer TECHNICAL DIRECTORAlfred Schatz ASSOC. TECHNICAL DIRECTOR + RESIDENT SET DESIGNER

Judy Merrick ASSOC. TECHNICAL DIRECTOR + RESIDENT STAGE MANAGER

Jay Stull LITERARY MANAGERNick Trotta LITERARY ASSOCIATE

Renata Melillo DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION

For the full story, visit www.theamoralists.com

Andrew + Cynthia AnthonyBonnie Kane BarenholtzLindsay BarenzJason BlackAndie BottrellJack BowdanGuy BoydRuss Cahill, Jr.Alan DeebEdgar EguiaLisa Higgins Dow + Oliver DowJody Falco + Jeffrey SteinmanLiz FaughnanAmy A. Gordon

The Amoralists couldn’t do what we do without the support of the Amoralytes, what we call our amazing donors. Thank you to the following,

who donated in support of Collision and The Amoralists’ 2013 Season.

AMORALYTES ARE COOLER THAN YOU.

James E. GrapkaChris HenryKara JacksonBruce KronenbergStuart Z. & Deborah S. LansonMara LileasMelanie MarxJeffrey Matchen + Debra DandeneauWilliam McCueGeorge + Holland MerrickJohn H. MooreRobert + Cheryl MooreAlan MendelsohnMelissa Navia

The QuietMan FamilyJim ReesKathleen RohTatiana RonderosBarry SackerAlex SchwendnerThe ShelterBrian SheppardBruce Smith + Paul CastellanoCandice TeitelbaumHenry ThaggertJames WardPaul J. Weissman

Huge thanks also to the following for their help in making Collision a reality...

American Academy of Dramatic Arts, William Apps, Bridge Street Live, Alexis Buatti-Ramos, Jim David, djEAL, Russell Dobular, Oliver Dow, Gabriel Ebert, EndTimes Productions, John Glover, Mike Jacobs, Jennifer Jefferson, Farin Kautz, Terry Kinney, Christopher Lanceley, Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons, Sarah Lemp, Brian Long, Eric Marciano and American Montage, Marek and the Boss Chops, Mark Marcante, Brian Mendes, Mandy Nicole Moore, Nosedive Productions, PS 122, Mark Riccadonna, Russ Rowland, Pat Ryan, Matt Saldivar, Jason Salmon, Sky Seals, Kelley Swindall, Tammany Hall, Theatre for the New City, Jordan Tisdale, David Van Asselt, Carl White, Wide Eyed Productions, and Gary Wilmes.

And our sincerest love to Nick Cimato and the late John Scheffler, Rick Cimato and Tony Cimato.

SUPER SPECIAL THANK YOU’S GO OUT TO...

We recognize the kindness of The Dramatists Guild Fund, which provided major support for this production.

The Amoralists is a self-funded theatre company that relies on contributions from our friends and supporters to survive. Please help us continue to produce new theatre

by making a fully tax-deductible contribution atwww.SupportTheAmoralists.com.