W I L M A B I L L

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORJAMES HASKINS

BLANKA ZIZKA

FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

At a recent meeting of the Wilma’s Board, AnneHolmes shared information about activities inour education and outreach programming. Thediscussion generated such enthusiasm that Idecided to hand over my message to her:

What a fall! Just after Thanksgiving, South Philadelphia High students finished a week-long runon our stage of We Write South Philly High, a playwritten and performed by the students about theirschool. After December 3, 2009, when Asian students were beaten by fellow students in racially-motivated attacks, we teamed up with 1812 Productions, and later Philadelphia Young Playwrights, to develop the program that createdthis performance. Nearly 1,200 students fromSouthern and other Philadelphia schools attendedthe show, cheering wildly at the finish.

But how would 250 Philadelphia public school students take to an emotionally challenging, three-hour holocaust play? We conducted nine semester-long residencies designed around Our Class, with pre- and post-show workshops withcast members, that culminated in students writing and performing original work inspired bythe play. Their response to Our Class? They loved it!

Our 9th graders from one residency at Science Leadership Academy attended the matinee of We Write South Philly High and then invited the cast to see their own work andshare feedback. As I watched seniors from Southern discussing their impressions with theSLA students and their teaching artists, both Wilma cast members, I realized we were creating a community of student artists much like the Wilma’s community of professionalartists, and that both are inextricably linked.

Anne K. Holmes James HaskinsEducation Director Managing Director

Meet our Education Director, Anne Holmes!

I’m very excited to introduce you to the work of ayoung playwright, Annie Baker, whose play CircleMirror Transformation has become the second-most-produced play of the 2011/2012 theater season. Iwas very happy to learn that Anne Kauffman, who Iinvited back to the Wilma after directing a brilliantproduction of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw in January of 2010, admired Annie Baker’s plays aswell and was eager to direct Body Awareness here.

As a director, Anne spends very little time (only oneday) sitting with actors at a table analyzing thescript, which is the way most directors spend theirfirst week of rehearsals. She says she only fullylearns a play when it’s put on its feet. Anne wantsher actors to learn about the play from the rhythmsof the language; she wants them to move in thespace, to search for the characters’ essence, findemotional life, and create relationships among thecharacters all at the same time. Most directorsisolate these aspects of the creative process. Annewants actors to immerse themselves into the worldof the play right away. One of many reasons Anne loves working at the Wilma is that ourpractice of rehearsing on stage with full set and props early in the process supports heraim to immerse actors completely into the world of the play.

Allowing artists to spend a longer time on stage is integral to the Wilma’s mission. We aspire to be a true artistic home, where all artists involved in creating theater can experiment, learn, engage, collaborate, strive to get better, and create imaginative and engaging theater. I believe that only by putting the artists back into the center of our theatrical organizations will we be able to create theater that has the potential to be stunning and memorable.

I’m so glad that you are here to see Body Awareness. Thank you for attending the Wilmaand I very much hope you enjoy the show.

Yours,

Blanka ZizkaArtistic Director

Dear Audience Members,

featuring

The Actors and Stage Manager employedin this production are members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union ofProfessional Actors and Stage Managersin the United States.

This Theater operates under an agree-ment between the League Of ResidentTheatres and Actors’ Equity Association,the Union of Professional Actors andStage Managers in the United States.

under the direction ofBlanka Zizka

Artistic DirectorJames Haskins

Managing Directorpresents

Set Designermimi lien

Costume Designerrosemarie mcKelvey

Lighting DesignerThom Weaver

Sound Designerrobert Kaplowitz

DramaturgWalter Bilderback

Philadelphia Castingdavid stradley

New York Castinglaura stanczyk

Production Managerclayton Tejada

Resident Stage ManagerPatreshettarlini Adams

THEHorAcE GoldsmITH

FoundATIon

Christopher Coucill, Grace Gonglewski, Dustin Ingram, Mary Martello

The Wilma Theater is grateful for significant support provided by:

SEASON SPONSORS

Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts EducationFund of the Philadelphia Foundation

THANK YOU TO OUR 2011/2012 SPONSORS

by Annie Bakerdirected by Anne Kauffman

BodY AWArEnEss is presented by special arrange-ment with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

BodY AWArEnEss was developed at the 2007 BayArea Playwrights Festival, a program of the PlaywrightsFoundation, Amy L. Mueller, Artistic Director.

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HONORARY PRODUCER

Cast

children PolicySome subject matter may be deemed objectionable for children; therefore, children under 12 will not bepermitted in the theater.

distracting noise and lightThe noise of cellular phones and candy wrappers, and the light from electronic devices are distracting to bothaudiences and actors. Please turn off all cellular phones and electronic devices. Also, please be sure thatyour watch alarm does not sound during the performance.

smoking, eating, and drinking are prohibited inside the theater.

Please notePhotography or sound recording inside the theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be asked to leave the theater and may be liable for financial charges.

The Wilma Theater proudly participates in the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, Philadelphia's premier professional theatre awards program. The Wilma Theater is a member of thefollowing organizations: Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, League of Resident Theatres,Rittenhouse Row, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, and Theatre Communications Group, Inc.

Annie Baker (Playwright) is an OBIEAward-winning playwright andteacher. Her full-length plays in-clude Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Awardfor Best New American Play,Drama Desk nomination for BestPlay), The Aliens (Rattlestick Play-wrights Theater, OBIE Award forBest New American Play), andBody Awareness (Atlantic TheaterCompany, Drama Desk and Outer

Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright).Her plays have been produced regionally at South Coast Rep,Guthrie, Victory Gardens, Artists Rep, Huntington TheaterCompany, Seattle Rep, Studio Theatre in DC, Hyde Park The-atre, Kansas City Rep, and San Francisco Playhouse, andproduced internationally in England, Australia, Argentina, Bo-livia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Latvia, and Russia. Shehas developed work at Signature Theater, MCC, New YorkTheatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Orchard Project, the Onto-logical-Hysteric, the Cape Cod Theatre Project, the Bay AreaPlaywrights Festival, and the Sundance Institute Theatre Labin Utah and Ucross, Wyoming. Annie is a member of NewDramatists, MCC’s Playwrights Coalition, and EST, and she isan alumna of Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Play Group and theSoho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Recent honors include a NewYork Drama Critics Circle Award, a Susan Smith BlackburnPrize nomination, a Lilly Award, a Time Warner StorytellingFellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Master Artist Res-idency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. A published anthol-ogy of her work, The Vermont Plays, was published by TCG inNovember 2011, and her adaptation of Uncle Vanya will haveits World Premiere at Soho Rep in June 2012.

Anne Kauffman (Director)At The Wilma Theater, Anne Kauff-man directed Becky Shaw (Barry-more for Best Direction and BestOverall Production). Most recentlyshe directed The Flea and The Pro-fessor at Arden Theater Company(Barrymore for Best Overall Pro-duction of a Musical), You BetterSit Down: tales from my parents'divorce at Williamstown Theater

Festival, Belleville at Yale Rep, and Maple and Vine at Play-wrights Horizons. Additional credits include God's Ear byJenny Schwartz at the Vineyard and New Georges, Stunningby David Adjmi with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company andLCT3, Communist Dracula Pageant by Anne Washburn atAmerican Repertory Theater, Have You Seen Steve Steven byAnn Marie Healy with 13P, Expecting Isabel by Lisa Loomerand Doubt at Asolo Repertory Theater, Act A Lady by JordanHarrison at the Humana Festival of New Plays, Sides: The

Fear Is Real at the Culture Project, Typographer's Dream byAdam Bock at the Encore Theater and Shotgun Players, andThe Ladies by Anne Washburn with The Civilians at DixonPlace and Cherry Lane Theater. She won the OBIE Award forThe Thugs by Adam Bock at SoHo Rep, and is a recipient ofthe Alan Schneider Award for Directing as well as a LillyAward for Directing. She is a member of The Drama Leagueof New York, Soho Rep Artistic Council, and New GeorgesKitchen Cabinet. She is a Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist anda founding Associate Artist of The Civilians. Anne received herMFA in directing from UCSD.

Christopher Coucill (Frank Bonitati-bus) has appeared on Broadway inThe Graduate, Annie Get Your Gun,and Kiss Me Kate; and Off-Broad-way in The Rothschilds, Portraits,Words Divine, and The Fantasticks,among others. His Philadelphiaperformances include Crazy forYou (The Forrest), Annie Get YourGun (The Prince,) and Silverhill (In-terAct). Regionally Chris has per-

formed at McCarter Theatre, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage,Huntington, Dallas Theater Center, and Boston ShakespeareCompany among many others. His favorite roles include Learand Quixote at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Ham-let at Shakespeare & Company. Television: Margaret Mead:An Observer Observed, Law & Order, American Playhouse,Deadline, and One Life to Live. Chris lives in Princeton withhis wife Liz Fillo, singer, songwriter and cabaret partner.Thanks to Blanka and Seth Rozin.

Grace Gonglewski (Phyllis) Off-Broadway: The Flea Theatre,The Guys with Tom Wopat, dir.Tommy Kail. Regional: Arden The-atre Company (24 roles includingmost recently Barbara in August:Osage County, Hedda Gabler,Candida, and Josie in Moon forthe Misbegotten), Walnut StreetTheatre, Cape Cod Playhouse,Cape May Stage, Delaware The-

atre Company, Mt Gretna Theatre, Pennsylvania ShakespeareFestival (8 seasons), Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Philadel-phia Theatre Company, The Wilma Theater, 1812 Productions,and a tour of Ireland with InterAct Theatre Company. FourBarrymore Awards, F. Otto Haas Award, Dorothy Haas Fellow-ship, BFA North Carolina School of the Arts. Grace is thevoice of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, David’s Bridal, Carsense andmany banks, hospitals and politicians around the country.Thrilled to be back working with this amazing team.

Christopher Coucill..........................................................Frank BonitatibusGrace Gonglewski............................................................................Phyllis Dustin Ingram...................................................................................JaredMary Martello...................................................................................Joyce

Setting: Shirley State College, VermontPresent Day

There is no intermission during this production.

MEET THE ARTISTS

Dustin Ingram (Jared), a native ofLos Angeles, began his career onthe stage at age six. He was mostrecently seen as Barnette Lloyd inMcCarter Theatre Center’s pro-duction of Crimes of the Heart.Regional: The Secret Garden (ColinCraven), Oliver! (Oliver), The Soundof Music (Friedrich), Jesus ChristSuperstar, Joseph and the Amaz-ing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Music

Man, Fiddler On the Roof, Hello Dolly, Barnum. Film: Paranor-mal Activity 3, Meet Monica Velour, Sky High. Television: Glee,Everybody Hates Chris, Brothers, Zeke and Luther, The SuiteLife of Zack and Cody, and three seasons on Unfabulous.Dustin is also an accomplished musician and is currently pro-ducing and performing in a new feature film called The Propis the Girl.

Mary Martello (Joyce) started per-forming at seven and has contin-ued through four kids and fiftyyears. She trained at BoarsHeadTheatre in Michigan, doing every-thing from Shakespeare and mu-sical comedy to original plays andmusicals; in Virginia at BarksdaleDinner Theatre, Theatre IV, andVirginia Museum Theatre; in NewYork at Light Opera of Manhattan,

the Public Theatre and a variety of off-off Broadway; in Col-orado at Denver Center Theatre; in New Jersey at FoundationTheatre, Passage Theatre, Theatre Intime, and seven seasonsat McCarter Theatre. In Philadelphia she found a creativehome and has had the privilege of working at the Arden,Azuka, InterAct, Lantern, Peoples Light and Theatre, Prince,Walnut, Wilma, and 1812. Mary has performed with thePhiladelphia Orchestra and continues to perform cabaretsshe developed here: The Reluctant Optimist and The Style ofWeill. Mary is very happy to be back at the Wilma.

Mimi Lien (Set Designer) is a designer of sets/environmentsfor theater, dance, and opera. Previously at the Wilma: Mac-beth, Becky Shaw, Eurydice, The Life of Galileo, Cloud 9/ANumber, Outrage. Recent work includes Hansel & Gretel (Vir-ginia Opera), and Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla and PlaywrightsHorizons), Born Bad (Soho Rep), Neighbors (The Public The-ater), Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre), Strange Devicesfrom the Distant West (Berkeley Rep). Mimi is an artistic as-sociate with Pig Iron Theatre Company and The Civilians, andresident designer at BalletTech. Her work has been recog-nized by a Barrymore Award, American Theatre Wing HewesDesign Award nomination, Bay Area Critics Circle nomination,she was a recipient of the 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career De-velopment Program, and her design for Love Unpunished (PigIron) was presented in the 2011 Prague Quadrennial.

Rosemarie McKelvey (Costume Design) is a Philadelphiabased costume designer and is thrilled to be designing BodyAwareness for the Wilma. Other companies Rosemarie is de-signing for this season include Arden Theatre Company, NewParadise Laboratories, Act II Playhouse, Theatre Exile andPeople’s Light and Theatre Company where she is also amember of the resident company of artists. Rosemarie alsoserves as an adjunct professor at Moore College of Art & De-sign in the Fashion Design department. Rosemarie has beennominated five times for the Barrymore Award for Outstand-ing Costume Design and won in 2007(Caroline or Change,Arden Theatre Co.) and in 2009(Something Intangible, ArdenTheatre Co.) For more information on Rosemarie please visither portfolio at rosemariemckelvey.com

Thom Weaver (Lighting Designer) Previously for the Wilma: Inthe Next Room, or the vibrator play, Coming Home, Scorched,Becky Shaw. His work has been seen at theatres in the areaincluding Arden, Delaware Theatre Company, People’s Light,Azuka, Theatre Exile, Curtis Opera, New Paradise Laborato-ries, Lantern, 1812, and Flashpoint Theatre Company, wherehe is also Artistic Director. Other theatre credits include:Teller’s Play Dead in New York, CENTERSTAGE, SyracuseStage, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, WilliamstownTheatre Festival, Signature Theater Company, Folger Theatre,Cleveland Playhouse, Round House Theatre, Cincinnati Play-house, Berkshire Opera, York Theatre, Lincoln Center Festival,Summer Play Festival, 37 ARTS, Spoleto Festival USA, CityTheatre, Virginia Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and YaleRep. Awards include nine Barrymore nominations, one HelenHayes nomination, the 2007 Best Lighting Design AUDELCOAward for Signature Theater’s King Hedley II, and the 2003Entertainment Design Magazine Tyro Talent award. He re-ceived his B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and hisM.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.

Robert Kaplowitz (Sound Design) has been lucky enough tospend the last 20 years sound designing and composing, andhas been honored with an OBIE Award for Sustained Excel-lence in Sound Design and a Tony Award for Fela! He’s beena Philly resident for two years, and has enjoyed creating de-signs for PlayPenn, Arden, InterAct, PLTC, Elastic Theatre andAct II; further flung credits include Lincoln Center, The Na-tional Theatre of England, The Joseph Papp Public Theater,MTC, and Sundance. Previous collaborations with AnneKauffman include The Thugs, Belleville, Stunning, and TheFlea and The Professor. And he’s married to a former JohnDeere Catalog Model whom he loves, along with his son Niall,more than any work he's ever done.

David Stradley (Philadelphia Casting) is the Artistic Director ofDelaware Shakespeare Festival. As a casting director, he hasworked for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and DelawareTheatre Company. As a director, David has directed forDelaware Theatre Company (8 productions), Walnut StreetTheatre, Delaware Shakespeare Festival, and PhiladelphiaShakespeare Theatre. As an educator, David has worked forall of the above companies as well as for the Wilma, FolgerShakespeare Library, and People’s Light and Theatre Com-pany. BFA Theatre Performance, University of Evansville; MFAActing, Asolo Conservatory/Florida State University. Manythanks to Blanka and Jamie for the opportunity. Much love toMichelle. For more information, please see www.davidstradley.com.

Laura Stanczyk (New York Casting). Broadway: Ragtime, Im-pressionism, The Seafarer, Coram Boy, Translations, RadioGolf, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Urinetown. Previouslyfor the Wilma: Macbeth, Language Rooms, Becky Shaw,Coming Home. Other: The Shawshank Redemption (Gaiety,Dublin; Wyndam’s Theatre, West End), The Cripple of Inish-maan (Atlantic, Irish Tour), Ragtime (Kennedy Center), DirtyDancing (National Tour), Broadway Three Generations(Kennedy Center), National Anthems (Old Vic), Tryst (Prome-nade), Damn Yankees (Encores! Summer Stars), Gate/Beckett(LCF), Don’t Dress for Dinner (Royal George), The GloriousOnes (LCT), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Druid Theatre,Galway). She is also the resident casting director for Mc-Carter Theatre and regularly works with the Alley, ACT, Good-man, and Huntington theatres in the United States.

Patreshettarlini Adams (Resident Stage Manager/AEA) hasbeen the production stage manager at The Wilma Theatersince the theater made its new home on the Avenue of theArts in 1996. She has captained all but three productions inher tenure here and is very happy to be a part of the Philadel-phia theater community. “Pat” is celebrating her “Sweet Six-teen”--season #16 at the fabulous Wilma! Prior to hercoming home to Philly, Pat was stage manager at the TonyAward winning Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ. Inpast years, Pat has worked the National Black Arts Festival inAtlanta, GA and the National Black Theater Festival in Win-ston-Salem, NC. When not at the Wilma, she has found her-self traveling the world with critically-acclaimed dancecompany Noche Flamenca! Most recently, she is using allher free time to spoil her grandsons, Isaiah and Elijah. God IsGood!

Walter Bilderback (Dramaturg) has been at The Wilma The-ater since 2004. Some memorable productions in recentyears have included Rock’n’Roll, Scorched, Language Rooms,Macbeth, In the Next Room, the Wilma/BalletX collaborationProliferation of the Imagination, and Our Class. He is currentlybusy preparing for the Wilma's production of Angels in Amer-ica, planning future seasons for the Wilma, and various serv-ice projects for the theater. He has just returned fromattending the Isra-Drama Festival in Israel, which introduced

him to contemporary Israeli theater and additional interna-tional contacts for the Wilma.

Clayton Tejada (Production Manager) is in his first year asProduction Manager after serving the Wilma as Technical Di-rector for the past seven years. Clayton started his profes-sional career as an Apprentice at Arden Theatre, and thenworked there for several years as Stage Supervisor. Beforecoming to the Wilma, he worked as a freelance Technical Di-rector or Production Manager for 1812 Productions, MumPuppettheatre, Lantern Theater, and Azuka Theatre. Claytonis a graduate of the Theater Arts program at The University ofPuget Sound. He is proud to make Philadelphia his profes-sional and artistic home. Many thanks to his sweet Kate andAlex the rascal.

Blanka Zizka (Artistic Director) hasbeen Founding Artistic Director ofThe Wilma Theater since 1981.Blanka most recently directedTadeusz Slobodzianek's OurClass, Sarah Ruhl’s In the NextRoom, which received eight Barry-more awards, and Macbeth, whichincluded an original score byCzech composer and percussion-ist Pavel Fajt. Blanka has directed

over 60 plays and musicals at the Wilma. This fall Blanka re-ceived the Zelda Fichandler Award from the Stage Directorsand Choreographers Foundation, which recognizes an out-standing director or choreographer transforming the regionalarts landscape. Her recent favorite productions are WajdiMouawad’s Scorched, Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll, SarahRuhl’s Eurydice (which featured an original score by com-poser Toby Twining, now available from Cantaloupe Records),Brecht's The Life of Galileo, Athol Fugard’s Coming Home andMy Children! My Africa!, and Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9. Shecollaborated closely with Dael Orlandersmith on her playsRaw Boys and Yellowman, which was co-produced by Mc-Carter Theatre and the Wilma and also performed at ACTSeattle, Long Wharf, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Blankawas also privileged to direct Rosemary Harris and John Cul-lum in Ariel Dorfman’s The Other Side at MTC,and for theAcademy of Vocal Arts, she directed the opera Kát’a Ka-banová by Leoš Janáček. She has collaborated with manyplaywrights including Yussef El Guindi, Doug Wright, SarahRuhl, Tom Stoppard, Linda Griffiths, Polly Pen, Dael Orlander-smith, Laurence Klavan, Lillian Groag, Jason Sherman, AmyFreed, Robert Sherwood, and Chay Yew. Her favorite produc-tions are, even after all these years, Tom Stoppard’s The In-vention of Love and Jim Cartwright's Road.

James Haskins (Managing Direc-tor) joined the staff of The WilmaTheater as Managing Director inJune 2006. He began his work intheater administration as Box Of-fice Manager of Circle RepertoryCompany and went on to workwith a number of New York the-aters, including National Shake-speare Company, SymphonySpace, Provincetown Playhouse,

Actor’s Playhouse, Triplex Performing Arts Center and AstorPlace Theatre. In Seattle, he served as Business Manager ofSeattle Group Theatre and worked for Ticket/Ticket, Seattle’shalf-price ticket booth. In 1999, James moved to Philadelphiaand worked as Managing Director of InterAct Theatre Com-pany, while also serving for three years on the Board of theTheatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia as Chair of the Barry-more Awards Oversight Committee. He later moved into theExecutive Director position of the Theatre Alliance. Also anactor and director, James holds an MFA from the University ofWashington and a BA from the College of Wooster (Ohio),where he currently serves as President of his alumni class.James is honored to serve on Philadelphia Mayor MichaelNutter’s Cultural Advisory Council.

Jiri Zizka (Founding Artistic Direc-tor) was born in Prague and edu-cated at Charles IV University,became an Artist in Residence atthe Wilma in 1979 and co-Artis-tic Director in 1981, where he di-rected over 70 productions.Some of the highlights includedOrwell’s Animal Farm, Camus’The Stranger, Brecht’s MotherCourage, Capek’sThe Insect

Comedy, Weiss’ Marat/Sade, his own adaptation of Wilde’sThe Picture of Dorian Gray, Brecht/Weill’s Happy End, Or-well’s 1984 (also at the Kennedy Center and Off-Broadway),Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and the U.S. Premiereof Havel’s Temptation (a co-production with Joseph Papp’sNew York Shakespeare Festival). Jiri also directed a featurefilm of Václav Havel’s Largo Desolato, adapted by Tom Stop-pard, starring F. Murray Abraham, for PBS’s Great Perform-ances. He wrote and directed Inquest of Love, a filmnominated for an Emmy® Award. He also directed a co-pro-duction between the Wilma and The Philadelphia Orchestra ofTom Stoppard’s and André Previn’s Every Good Boy DeservesFavor, a play for actors and a philharmonic orchestra, at TheKimmel Center’s Verizon Hall. Jiri directed, among others,Mark Saltzman’s The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Carbonell Award forBest Director), Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman (six Barry-more nominations), Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, Terry Johnson’sHysteria, and most recently, the U.S. Premiere of VáclavHavel’s Leaving. In 2010, Jiri moved into a consulting rela-tionship with the Wilma in order to pursue other artistic en-deavors.

Body AwarenessProduction Crew

Assistant Director..............................................Adam DarrowAssistant Stage Manager.....................................Kenya GaylesAssistant Set Designer...........................................Tim McMathAssistant Lighting Designer...................................Oona CurleyAssistant Costume Designer........................... Amerra AnsariSound Associate.....................................................Jessica PazProperties Master.................................Kimitha Anne CashinProperties Assistant............................................Neil BonnerScenic Artist.......................................................Lance KniskernLight Board Programmer and Operator...................AshleyM i l l sSound Operator................................................Ashley TurnerWardrobe Supervisor........................................Regina RizzoAssistant Master Electrician..................................Nicole RoloRunning Crew...................................................Benjamin HenryCarpenters: Nelson Barre, Stuart Bartlett, Alyssa Cole, Elliot Greer, Phil Haberek, Lance Kniskern, John Sangston, Georgia SchlessmanElectricians: Josh Carazo, Catherine Lee, Melanie Leeds,Maya Ogasawara, Christine Richards, Nicole Rolo, GeorgiaSchlessman, Jana Gillenwater Sound Crew..................................................Sarah MitteldorfScenery Construction.......American Repertory Theater SceneShop

Special Thanks to:Annie Baker

ARTISTICDramaturg/Literary Manager - Walter BilderbackLiterary/Artistic Assistant - William SteinbergerLiterary Interns - Isa St. Clair, Rebecca Scholl andKari Olmon.

EDUCATIONEducation Director - Anne K. HolmesTeaching Artists- Ashley Alter, Mike Dees, KatharineClark Gray, Elizabeth Greene, John Jarboe, KathrynMacMillan, Emily Peters, Bruce Robinson, TomReing, Ed Swidey, Davon Williams.

MARKETINGMarketing Director - Aaron ImmediatoPublic Relations Manager - Johnny Van Heest

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PRODUCTIONProduction Manager - Clayton TejadaTechnical Director - Matthew ZumboResident Stage Manager - Patreshettarlini AdamsFacilities Manager - Kenneth DeprezMaster Electrician - Ashley W. MillsSound Engineer - Ashley TurnerWardrobe Supervisor - Regina RizzoProduction Fellow - Benjamin HenryStage Management Fellow - Kenya GaylesProduction Management Intern - Kaitlin Finegan

FRONT OF HOUSEBox Office Manager - James SpechtAssistant Box Office Manager - Crystal WhybarkBox Office Staff - Amanda Grove, Helen O'Rourke,Rich Rubin, Samantha TowerHouse Manager - Javier Mojica

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WB: How is adapting a play different foryou than writing a new one? Do you thinkthis will have any impact on your futurework?

AB: It’s totally, totally different. It’s likethe difference between, uh, swimminglaps and cooking meat on a grill. I haveno idea why those examples leapt intomy mind but there you go. AdaptingUncle Vanya felt like an intellectual inves-tigation, a puzzle, a philosophical inquiry.Writing a new play—when it’s goingwell—feels like meditating, dancing,sleep-walking.

WB: What other writers do you admire?

AB: Oh, so many. Novelists have influenced my plays just as much as other playwrights.Nabokov, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Thomas Bernhard, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolf. The play-wright Mac Wellman was my mentor, and he and his plays had a huge influence on me.

WB: You and director Anne Kauffman are fans of each other, but I believe this makes the firsttime you’ve had a chance to work together. What do you think Anne can bring to this produc-tion?

AB: Oh man. I’m so excited to work with Anne. I can’t even tell you. I think she’s so so bril-liant, and everything I see by her has so much integrity. What do I think she can bring? Bril-liant comic timing, intellectual rigor, good taste, subtle execution, lots of empathy. I’ve wantedto work with her for a really long time.

WB: You were recently named one of the first participants in Signature Theater Company’sResidency Five initiative. Can you tell us a little about this? Has it affected your life yet?

AB: Yes, the Signature Residency Five initiative is astrange and wonderful thing. They promise to put onthree of your plays in five years at the brand-spanking-new Signature Theater Center on 42nd Street in NYC.Because I’m a slow writer, it’s a bit daunting, but Icouldn’t say no. It’s an incredible opportunity, and JimHoughton is a fabulous artistic director, and it gives mepermission to take risks that I wouldn’t otherwise take.

About the Photos: Shirley, VT recalls classic New England College Towns. Main Street in Middlebury, Vermontwhich is home to Middlebury College; Middlebury's campus; and Keene State College in nearby Keene, NH,where the playwright's mother teaches psychology.

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OPEN STAGESby walter bilderback

INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT

ANNIE BAKERWalter Bilderback: My experience encountering each of your plays for the first time is thatnothing much is happening to relatively ordinary people, and then sometime near the end Ifind myself thinking “Holy Cow! Something huge has happened without me noticing it.”You’ve said that dialogue and pace are overly-stressed in a lot of new plays. Can you talk alittle about this?

Annie Baker: Oh good. That’s a huge compliment, Walter. Thank you. Yes, I feel like a lot ofcontemporary plays are trying to compete with film and TV, which is always a terrible idea. Ifyou try to play their game, film and TV will beat you every time. The plays I’m talking aboutare fast-paced, “realistic,” take place in a zillion different locations, and have a lot of big sit-com-y laughs. I think Body Awareness is representative of my transition out of that kind ofwriting and into something else. I do think it has some film and TV residue on it, but it’s tryingto shake it off.

WB: One of your current projects is an adaptation of Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov. His workshares many qualities with yours: do you feel a kinship with him?

AB: Well, I love his writing. I don’t know if I deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence ashim, though. He taught me a lot about offstage action, offstage characters, and how impor-tant it is to have dialogue that does not appear to forward the plot. His characters are sponta-neous and strange and do things we wouldn’t expect them to do and yet they also never really change.

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Walter Bilderback: It's great to have you back at the Wilma. You've been busysince you were here last, and have been gathering great reviews for yourwork. You're working with Mimi Lien, who designed Becky Shaw, again on theset design: what challenges did Body Awareness pose design-wise? Whatdoes Mimi bring to the table?

Anne Kauffman: I'm THRILLED to be back atthe Wilma again and so happy that Mimi isonce again collaborating with me. I loveworking with Mimi because she and I areboth interested in theatricalizing, or perhapsabstracting realism. We had a very interest-ing process on Body Awareness. Since theplaywright tells us in the script that all threespaces exist simultaneously, Mimi and Iasked ourselves "why" and "what does itmean?" We went through a couple of ideas where we threw out the directivefrom the playwright, and then found our way back to it. We discovered as westarted to dig in that as the play progresses, the characters are like beesbringing experience and knowledge from one space, and sort of pollinatinganother...so as we watch them traverse and live in each location, we watchthem bring work home to the kitchen, or the bedroom, and conversely whathappens in the bedroom, makes its way back to work, etc. We both reallyliked the fluidity of it and the exposure of it. And, that informed the way we

Interview with the Director went about creating it. Mimi also brought this incredible artist to the tableAndrea Zittel. We were inspired by her eco-living designs, and it underscoredthe political and social intentions of this piece. We also liked how she com-bines various living spaces into one compact unit. A practical challenge iswhat to do with the other spaces while one is in play. How do we keep theseadjacent locations live when there's nothing happening there? That started toinform how we began talking about scene changes, continuous life of thecharacters, lighting and costumes. We're relying on rehearsals to create thiscontinuous action/life and how to treat the jump-cuts from one scene to an-other.

WB: It seems like you've got project after project lined up: what's next on yourschedule?

AK: I'm very excited to be mounting a Civil-ians project I've been working on for awhile called You Better Sit Down: talesfrom my parents' divorce. The Civilians isan interview-based theater company whodoes investigations into contemporary life.The four actor/writers on this show inter-viewed their parents about their divorcesand then play their parents in this piece.It's surprisingly hilarious and very smart.

That goes up in April in New York. Then I'm very much looking forward to di-recting a piece by an amazing young writer named Greg Pierce. I'll be direct-ing his play Slowgirl at LCT3 in May. His show will inaugurate the new LCT3space which resides on top of Lincoln Center.

Sunday, January 8 – (approximately) 4:00pmJoin us for an exclusive conversation with Body Awareness playwright and ObieAward Winner Annie Baker. Tickets to the Onstage Conversation with AnnieBaker are $10 without tickets to the play. RSVP suggested; for tickets, call215.546.7824

Thursday, January 12 – 9pmStay after the performance to discuss the play with a member of theWilma's artistic staff.

Thursday, January 19 – 9pmStay after the performance to discuss the play with the cast.

Wednesday, February 1 – (approximately) 3:30pmStay after the matinee performance to discuss theplay with a member of the Wilma's artistic staff in thelobby with complimentary coffee.

A PRACTICAL CHALLENGE ISWHAT TO DO WITH THEOTHER SPACES WHILE ONEIS IN PLAY. HOW DO WEKEEP THESE ADJACENT LOCATIONS LIVE WHENTHERE'S NOTHING HAPPENING THERE?

SINCE THE PLAYWRIGHTTELLS US IN THE SCRIPTTHAT ALL THREE SPACESEXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY,

MIMI AND I ASKED OURSELVES "WHY" AND"WHAT DOES IT MEAN?"

Onstage Conversations

Anne Kauffman

Set Design for Body Awareness

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