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Assistant StageManager

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CastingStuart Howard,Amy Schecter &

Paul Hardt

Press RepresentationDavid Gersten &

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Mint Theater CompanyJonathan Bank, Artistic Director

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Susan and Godby Rachel Crothers

withOpal Alladin, Jennifer Blood

Matthieu Cornillon, Alex CranmerTimothy Deenihan, Katie Firth

Leslie Hendrix, Anthony Newfield,Al Sapienza, Jordan Simmons

Scenic DesignNathan Heverin

Lighting DesignJosh Bradford

Costume DesignClint Ramos

Sound DesignJane Shaw

DramaturgHeather J. Violanti

General ManagerSherri Kotimsky

Directed by

Jonathan Bank

Mint Theater gratefully acknowledges public support from the National Endowmentfor the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New YorkState Council on the Arts, a State agency. Production design support provided by The

Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation.

Prop DesignJudi Guralnick

Production Stage ManagerJennifer Grutza

Susan and Godby Rachel Crothers

CASTin order of appearance

Act One, Scene 1: Irene’s house in the countryLate afternoon, a Saturday in JuneScene 2: After dinner, the same day

intermissionAct Two, Scene 1: Seven o’clock the following morning

Scene 2: Ten o’clock the same morning, Sundayintermission

Act Three, Scene 1: Susan’s house in the country, three months laterScene 2: Two days later, in the evening

SPECIAL THANKSLighting equipment provided by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of ResidentTheatres/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the Cityof New York Department of Cultural Affairs.

Susan and God is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

IRENE BURROUGHSMICHAEL O’HARACHARLOTTE MARLEYHUTCHINS STUBBSLEONORA STUBBSCLYDE ROCHESTERSUSAN TREXELBARRIE TREXELBLOSSOM TREXELLEEDS

Opal AlladinAl SapienzaKatie Firth

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Matthieu Cornillon

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RACHEL CROTHERS (1878-1958) was born in Bloomington, Illinois. When her moth-er embarked on a medical career, Crothers was sent to live with an aunt inMassachusetts. She learned early about the struggle to balance a career with familylife. The lesson would prove a recurrent theme in her plays.

In 1896, Crothers moved to New York. After one term as a student at Stanhope andWheatcroft School of Acting, she was hired as a teacher. She began to write and directher own plays. When Nora (1903), a one-act about a widowed actress's battle to keepher son, debuted at the school, one critic predicted “a new dramatic author may havearrived.”

Nora imitates the work of Ibsen and Strindberg, but Crothers gradually grew confidentenough to recast the “problem play” in a distinctly American idiom. A Man’s World(1910), heralded as “the first great American play,” followed a young woman’s struggleto establish an artistic career while raising an adopted son.

During World War I, she wrote “gladness plays”-sentimental comedies with melodra-matic overtones. One of these, A Little Journey (1918), was nominated for the Pulitzer.Her postwar output abandoned sentimentality in favor of realism and social issues.Nice People (1921) examined the flapper phenomenon and provided Tallulah Bankheadand Katherine Cornell with their first important roles.

Crothers’ plays revolve around the everyday challenges facing women-getting a job,becoming independent, raising a family. She sympathized with various women's move-ments, but never allied herself with them. She was criticized for being apolitical, shewas called old-fashioned-but she managed to survive thirty-one years on Broadway.

Toward the end of her life, Crothers focused on charity work. During War World II, shehelped found the American Theater Wing and contributed to its relief work overseas.Crothers died in her sleep at her Connecticut home on July 5, 1958.

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Whence Came Susan?By Rachel Crothers

I am asked to “confess”, and sign my name to it. It was this way:

Even in the friendly, peaceful hills ofConnecticut the far-off rumblings ofthe wicked world are sometimes faintlyheard. A Summer ago private fightswere raging in various places on theearth, inviting all who would to come inand do as much killing as they pleased,although no war had been declared.

Not only was “Death in the Afternoon”stalking the earth, but death in themorning and evening and night, on theland, in the sea and in the air. Deathfor so many and varied good reasons - “Imust have this and you must give upthat. I am right and you are wrong.

Let us kill each other for our ideas.” At home and afar there seemed more hate in theworld than ever before, more disappointment in ourselves and in the men we have chosento lead us, more crumbling of ideals and faith, more capitulation of good to evil.

* * * * * * * * *At a time when there seems to be more reason for goodness and brotherly love to prevail,when it seems it should be more easy to be kind and honest and love one's neighbor, withmore bath tubs and motor cars and free schools than the world has ever seen before andwith surely a more universal intelligence, however slight it may be - in spite of all this,and a few other things, I began to hear in the peaceful hills deep, tired sighs from thetired discouraged world reluctantly beginning to ask: “Is civilization a failure? Has noneof the goodness and rightness which has struggled through eons of time, has none of itbeen worthwhile, has none of it conquered? Is it all going down in a crash, beaten byhate and greed and horror?”

When-out of the blue and into my house-came a radiant lady prattling brilliantly, enter-tainingly and ceaselessly about God, who seemed to be a very real person and her verydear and intimate friend. She talked about love and kindness and sin and how it helps toconfess our sins aloud to other sinners and share with them the comfort and stimulationof being frank and open and clean about it all. And what fun it is to be good and loveeverybody, and how nice it is to call every one by his first name and how this helps towipe out class feelings, and how Lord This and Lady That were such intimate friends withtheir gardeners and chauffeurs on their vast estates and how happy and cheerful it makesone, and how this new thing is tearing down old frozen dogma and making people notashamed to be good-and how it can and will stop war.

* * * * * * * * *

It seemed to me I had heard these things before, both in and out of the Bible and inevery cult and creed known to man, helping him to find God, though not so entertain-ingly and intimately said, not so right-in-the-middle-of-the parlor-edly. But the ladydidn't seem to think I had ever heard them at all and while she was pouring it all out atme so radiantly the play was born.

Susan came along-not the lady, but Susan, foolish and wise, selfish and generous, utter-ly spoiled by her own diabolical charm, with no thought in life except what is going tobe most pleasant for Susan. Somebody in the play says, “What's Susan's trouble?” andsome one answers, “Too much charm. Life has never disciplined her at all.”

It occurred to me that Susan, coming upon this chic new shining brotherhood filledwith titles and gardeners and great thinkers - “My dears, you never saw such thinking”- it occurred to me there was a play in Susan and her discovery of God.

* * * * * * * * *It seemed to me that in this sick world, heartbroken over its own failures, that side byside with more universal horror than the world has ever known, there is a more univer-sal hunger and reaching out for a spiritual healing, a wider search for the Infinite Truththat can answer our fumbling questions and help us to go on believing in Goodness-inGod.

Never in my wildest moments would it occur to me to try to tell anybody about God,but I thought in Susan's foolishness, prattling in a new way about old troubles whichshe wanted to drive into other people, but in no way expected to have them driven intoherself, if when they, like a boomerang, came back at her, she would find they wereactually true and that happiness comes from giving, not taking, from suffering andservice.

* * * * * * * * *I thought there was a play in this and so I wrote it. And it’s very pleasant indeed tofind now that Susan has been good-naturedly accepted as I meant her and that womenare saying, "We're all Susans."

Personally I believe all that Susan says, though not quite as she says it and I'm withher when she declares, “It's the only thing on earth that will stop war,” but I am afraidher “bright and shining army which can't be stopped, and is marching gloriously on”will have to march very fast indeed now and recruit many soldiers or it will be overtak-en by the hideous one which is on our heels.

And aren’t we foolish and lazy that we don't make goodness rule the world-instead ofevil! I think perhaps that what Susan and Lady Wiggam’s army is trying to do-rousethe inert rank and file of us into the realization of the dynamic power of goodness, try-ing to get it to us that we could rule the world with Good-if we would.

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OPAL ALLADIN (Irene Burroughs)Broadway/New York: On Golden Pond(Broadway), Miss Julie (Cherry Lane), TwoNoble Kinsmen (The Public Theater), MarcoPolo Sings A Solo (Signature Theater). RegionalTheater: King Stag, breath, boom (YaleRepertory Theater), Wit (Pittsburgh PublicTheater), Twelfth Night (The Guthrie), Home(Actors Theatre of Louisville), The TrojanWomen, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra,and Henry VI (The Shakespeare Theater ofDC). Recent film/TV credits include theacclaimed movie "United 93" portraying CeeCeeLyles, "Jellysmoke" - winner of the LA FilmFestival, "Brown Sugar", "Law & Order: CI","Hack", "Law & Order: SVU", "Law & Order","Cosby", "One Life to Live", and "GuidingLight". Opal is a graduate of the JuilliardSchool, Group 25.

JENNIFER BLOOD (Blossom Trexel) was lastseen as Phoebe in Full Bloom with the VitalTheater Company. Around town she has workeda lot with the Prospect Theater Company on avariety of new musicals, including The Flood,Dido and Aenaes and Hamlet Sings! Last springshe played Tania in the American premiere ofFalling Petals with the Production Company.Out of town, favorite roles include Katie inSwingtime Canteen, Rita in Prelude to a Kiss,and Angie in Breaking Legs. Jen is so glad to behere working on this lovely play. For Jake, asalways.

MATTHIEU CORNILLON (Leeds) is thrilled tobe a part of this production. A graduate of TheActing Studio, Inc. and founding member ofFool's Pearls Productions, he most recentlyplayed Lancelet in Avalon. Previously, for hisportrayal of Laertes in Hamlet, he received the2005 Jean Dalrymple Award for BestSupporting Shakespearean Actor. He has alsoappeared in Edward the Second (Gaveston),Loose Knit (Miles), Mad Forest (Mihai), TheWinter's Tale (Cleomenes), Asian Shade (Tom),Greenwood, Unidentified, and The Long Goodbyeon the New York stage, and in more than half adozen short films. Matthieu also has extensiveproduction experience, where he has specializedin sound design. He served as assistant directoron Losing Ground, an original play by BryanWizemann, and directed Desdemona, a play

about a handkerchief. Thanks go to JonathanBank and the cast and crew of Susan and God,and to Amy and his family for their constantlove and support.

ALEX CRANMER (Clyde Rochester) Theatre-New York: Mr. Marmalade, Roundabout; SpinMoves, SPF. Regional: The Burning Deck, LaJolla Playhouse; Street Scene, Once in a Lifetime,Philadelphia Here I Come, WilliamstownTheatre Festival; K2, Arena Stage; The StudioTheatre, Washington Shakespeare Company,Olney Theatre Center, Potomac TheatreProject, The Depot, and others. Film- "FlyingScissors", "In Men We Trust", "Hearts inAtlantis". TV- "Law & Order: SVU", "ParcoPI", "Without a Trace", "Third Watch".Training- MFA from UCSD. Thanks Nicolosi &Co, G & C. alexcranmer.com.

TIMOTHY DEENIHAN (Barrie Trexel) Thoughborn in Pittsburgh, Tim has spent nearly hisentire professional career living and working inthe UK and Ireland. After finishing his trainingat the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art inLondon, Tim took the role of David in the TimeOut London Critic’s Choice production ofAbsolution. He went on to play Levin in AnnaKarenina, Babbybobby in The Cripple ofInishmaan, Dobbin in Vanity Fair, Austin inTrue West, and Jerry in Pinter’s classic Betrayal.Along with guest roles in series such as"Hornblower" and "Doctors", Tim received aBest Actor nomination for his part as DarrenRoebuck in the Channel Four series"Brookside". His film credits include "BatmanBegins" and the forthcoming Paul Verhoevenfeature, "Zwartboek" ("Black Book"). As awriter, Tim has been commissioned by theBBC’s flagship hospital drama, Holby City,while his photography has been projected ontothe side of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool.Susan & God marks Tim’s first New Yorkappearance.

KATIE FIRTH (Charlotte Marley) last appearedat the Mint in Far and Wide, adapted and direct-ed by Jonathan Bank. Other New York creditsinclude The Hiding Place, Atlantic TheatreCompany; Humble Boy, Manhattan TheaterClub; Only the End of the World, The Quiet Roomand Stephen Belber's solo play, Finally, all with

Company Charniére; Museum, Keen Company;Golden Prospects; The Winters Tale; The WildDuck; Three Sisters; Stonewall:Night Variations(directed by Tina Landau); Ivona - Princess ofBurgundia; Don Juan Comes Back from the War;and A Woman Alone. Regional: Placement, TheBlack Dahlia, (LA Weekly OustandingPerformance nomination); Day of the Kings,Alliance Theater; Romeo and Juliet and TwelfthNight, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; Picnic,Actors Theatre of Louisville, (directed by AnneBogart); Persephone, Mettawee Theatre Co; andthe Williamstown Theatre Festival. She is a fre-quent participant in workshops at New YorkTheatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club,Theatre for a New Audience, Atlantic TheaterCompany, HERE, Via Theatre and TheDirectors Company. Film & TV appearancesinclude: "Law & Order", "Honey", 'GuidingLight' and BBC's 'Grange Hill'. Ms. Firth is alsoa narrator for Recorded Books.

LESLIE HENDRIX (Susan Trexel) For the last14 years, Ms. Hendrix has appeared as the ever-dry Medical Examiner Rodgers on NBC TV's"Law & Order," "L&O Criminal Intent," "L&OSVU," and "L&O Trial by Jury." She made herBroadway debut when she stepped in for JessicaLange in A Streetcar Named Desire (with AlecBaldwin, Amy Madigan, and James Gandolfini);she later understudied Kathleen Turner asYvonne in Indiscretions, playing opposite EileenAtkins, Roger Rees, Jude Law, and CynthiaNixon. Other B'way appearances include TheMusic Man (directed by Susan Stroman), andmost recently Hollywood Arms (directed by HalPrince, written Carol Burnett). Off B'wayincludes The Cover of Life at The AmericanPlace (Pete Masterson directing) and The CiderHouse Rules at the Atlantic Theatre Co. (TomHulce directing). She has worked at regionaltheatres across the country, playing leadingroles including Maggie the Cat, Miss Adelaide,Kate the Shrew, and Anna Christie. Sheappeared on NPR radio's "Selected Shorts" andis occasionally seen on "All My Children" asJudge Hannah Lampert. Her movie credits con-sist of a very brief appearance in "Sweet HomeAlabama," and as the Bearded Lady in "Went toConey Island On A Mission From God...Be BackBy Five."

ANTHONY NEWFIELD (Hutchins Stubbs) -Broadway: Tartuffe (with Brian Bedford; JoeDowling, director); other New York creditsinclude: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, The BadInfinity, The Grapes of Wrath, LadyWindermere's Fan. Ireland: The Normal Heart(Ned Weeks, Project Arts Centre), Tom and Viv(T. S. Eliot, Project Arts Centre and NationalTour), Peer Gynt (Gate Theatre, Patrick Mason,director). Russia: The Grapes of Wrath (JimCasy, Moscow Arts Theatre). Regional creditsinclude The Play About the Baby (Florida StudioTheatre); The Father, Best Kept Secret (BerkshireTheatre Festival); Death Defying Acts, TheHostage (Coconut Grove); Arcadia(Huntington); Antony and Cleopatra, Dr. Jekylland Mr. Hyde (Alliance Theatre); Bent(Carbonell Award), The Royal Family, LesLiaisons Dangereuses, (Caldwell Theatre); How ILearned to Drive, Gross Indecency (HippodromeTheatre). Film and TV credits include"Diagnosis Murder," "All My Children," "OneLife to Live;" "Farewell, Miss Fortune";"Dogwood". He worked with Anna DeavereSmith at her Institute on the Arts and CivicDialogue at Harvard University. His articleabout his experiences in Russia, "After theOrchard," appeared in American Theatre maga-zine.

AL SAPIENZA (Michael O’Hara) After gradu-ating NYU he began his professional career onBroadway playing Ringo Starr in Beatlemaniaat the Winter Garden Theatre. Next was Got TuGo Disco at the Minskoff. He then headed out toLos Angeles where he was a founding member ofThe Alliance Repertory Company where he per-formed in or directed over 30 original produc-tions or West Coast premieres which garneredtwelve Drama Logue Awards and eight TheatreLeague Awards. He also starred in The Tragicand Horrible Life of the Singing Nun at theCoast Playhouse directed by Charles RandolphWright, the world premiere of Ladies Roomwritten and directed by Kim Freedman at theTiffany Theatre, the West Coast Premiere ofAre You Now Or have You Ever Been at the BackAlley and most recently Wild Mushrooms at theArc Light Theatre in New York. TV audiencesbest know him as Mikey Palmice, Uncle Junior'sHit Man and Consigliore who had the dubiousdistinction of being the first series regular to get

"whacked" in the first season finale of TheSopranos by taking that fateful jog! He alsoplayed Paul Koplan in "24", and can presentlybe seen as Philly Falzone in Prison Break. Hewill be starring as Mayor Frank Panzerelli in theupcoming series "Brotherhood' coming toShowtime in July. Guest Starring appearancesinclude "Law And Order", "The OC", "JudgingAmy", "CSI", "CSI Miami", "Navy NCIS","JAG", "NYPD Blue", and "Charmed". Filmsinclude: "Pretty Woman", "Frankie andJohnny", "Under Siege 2", "Free Willy 2","Bomb The System", "Capone's Boys", "TheHollywood Sign", and "Cellular".

JORDAN SIMMONS (Leonora Stubbs) hasappeared in: The Importance Of Being Earnest(Gwendolyn, both at The Pittsburgh Public andat Barrington Stage Company), The CardiacShadow (PS 122), Lend Me A Tenor (PortlandStage Company), An Ideal Husband (SonnetRep), Much Ado About Nothing (HartfordStage/The Shakespeare Theatre DC),Puddin’Head Wilson, Othello, and The TamingOf The Shrew (The Acting Company), AMidsummer Night’s Dream (Titania, RoanokeIsland Summer Festival), and Bold Girls(Women's Expressive Theater) amongst others.Favorite role ever: Martha in Who’s Afraid OfVirginia Woolf ? TV: "Law And Order". She is amember of Moson Productions and is a gradu-ate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

NATHAN HEVERIN (Scenic Designer) has pre-viously designed scenery for the Mint produc-tions of Soldier’s Wife and The Voice of theTurtle. Other recent designs include A StoneCarver (Passage); In the Matter of J. RobertOppenheimer, Children of a Lesser God, TheBreadwinner, Outward Bound (Drama DeskNom.), The Hasty Heart, The Journals of MihailSebastian, Good Morning Bill, The Voice of theTurtle, and The Good Thief (Keen Company);Sin: A Cardinal Deposed (New Group),Arrangements (Atlantic 453), All My Sons (TwoRiver), Sixteen Wounded and Going Native (LongWharf Theatre); Hannah and Martin (EpicTheatre Center). Nathan’s design for The GoodThief was selected for inclusion in the 2003Prague Quadrennial. Nathan is also an accom-plished pottery artist and pastry chef. Visitingprofessor/designer: SUNY/New Paltz, Univ. of

Conn., Dartmouth College. BFA- Florida State/MFA- NYU.

CLINT RAMOS (Costume Designer): Mint:Soldier's Wife. Recent New York credits:Relativity (Ensemble Studio Theater), LittleWilly (Set & Costumes, Rude Mechanicals),Trial By Water (Set & Costumes, Ma-YiTheater), Revenger's Tragedy (Red Bull Theater),The Adventures of Barrio Girl (Set &Costumes,SPF), And God Created Great Whales(Foundry Theater, Culture Project), SantaConcepcion (Set & Costumes, Public Theater),References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot(Public Theater), Whole Sky (DTW), StringsAttached (Duke Theater), Caucasian ChalkCircle (Set & Costumes, Vineyard) and others.Regional: American Repertory Theater,Commonwealth Shakespeare Company,Speakeasy Stage, Clarice Smith Performing ArtsCenter, Center Stage Baltimore, MOCA and oth-ers. International: ASEAN Opera, Fokoperanand Noorlaand Oper (Stockholm), Rijksteatern,Ballet Stuttgarter, De Nederlandse Opera(Amsterdam).Upcoming: Taming of The Shrew(Commonwealth Shakespeare), Angels inAmerica, The Opera (Opera Boston). Film :Production Design for Bleach (Sundance 98),Widow Wang (Sundance '99), Kim Chi, DoubleHappiness, The Lost Item, PsychopathiaSexualis. Television : Production Design forMTV, A&E, VH1, Nickelodeon, Oxygen,Lifetime, History Channel and others. Awards:New York Theater Workshop Design Fellowship,Gary Kalkin Memorial Award, I.R.N.E. awardnominations '03 and '04. MFA from NYU inDesign for Stage and Film.

JOSH BRADFORD (Lighting Designer) ispleased to be returning to the Mint, having pre-viously designed Soldier’s Wife and Far andWide. Other recent designs include All My Sonsfor Two River Theater, The Bald Soprano andThe Lesson, Arrangements and The Hiding Placefor the Atlantic Theater, and Sin: A CardinalDeposed and A Likely Story for The New Group,and In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer,Children of a Lesser God, The Breadwinner,Outward Bound, Pyretown, The Hasty Heart andPullman Car Hiawatha for Keen Company. Joshalso serves as the Resident Lighting Designer forthe Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's

Playwrights and Cabaret Conferences. Hebegan studying design at Middlebury Collegeand holds an MFA from NYU's Tisch School ofthe Arts. WWW.joshbradford.com

JANE SHAW (Sound Design) At the Mint:Lonely Way, Ivanov (Jonathan Bank), WalkingDown Broadway (Stephen Williford), No Timefor Comedy (Kent Paul). Designs include: SusanMarshall's Cloudless, Sleeping Beauty and OtherStories; Big Dance Theater's Plan B, Antigone,A Simple Heart, Another Telepathic Thing,Shunkin, and Mac Wellman's Girl Gone; ThePearl Theatre's Gentleman Dancing Master andMary Stuart; Synapse Productions' Silence andMachinal; and Syncopation at Capital Rep inAlbany. Her designs have toured from Shanghaito Muenster, Charleston to Los Angeles. Ms.Shaw held positions at NYU Tisch and Jacob'sPillow Dance Festival, and is a graduate of theYale School of Drama. She received a Meet theComposer Grant, 2006 for Hecuba at the PearlTheater, and is a recipient of the NEA/TCGCareer Development Program, 2005 – 2007.

JUDI GURALNICK (Prop Designer) is the PropShop Supervisor for the Conservatory ofTheater Arts and Film at Purchase College , andfreelances in the NY and Connecticut areas. Shespent five years as Prop Designer at the WalnutStreet Theatre in Philadelphia, and many sum-mers at Maine State Music Theater. Somefavorite props she has created: an abstract headof Ezra Pound for the show Treason at PerryStreet Theatre, carousel animals for a produc-tion of Joseph…, a macramé ass's head for AMidsummer's Night Dream and a lamb forWinter's Tale. Judi has also designed sets forsmall theaters from Maine to Washington, DCand in Israel. She was part of the Arad ArtsProject in Israel, where she had a one-womanexhibition of her drawings, sculpture andmacramé hangings. She is glad to be back at theMint Theater.

JENNIFER GRUTZA (Production StageManager) Jenn was most recently ProductionStage Manager for Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue withPage 73 Productions at the Culture Project. Off-Broadway: The Cherry Orchard, The BaldSoprano & The Lesson, The Hiding Place(Atlantic Theatre Company), Mr. Fox: A

Rumination (Signature Theatre Company),Cavedweller, Nocturne (NYTW), Julius Caesar(TFANA), Two Noble Kinsmen (NYSF). Tour:Turn of the Screw, Two Gentlemen of Verona(TAC). Regional: Julius Caesar (STNJ), SightUnseen (DeerTrees Festival), Ain't Misbehavin',Diosa (Hartford Stage), Flag Day, The Rose ofCorazon (CATF), Greylock Theatre Project(Williamstown Theatre Festival), Ten Unknowns(Huntington Theatre), Lobby Hero (LyricStage), Exposed, The Crazy Girl, Diosa, Boys &Girls (NYSAF), Oil City Symphony (CapePlayhouse), Indiscretions, The Three PennyOpera (Wilma Theatre) and several productionswith ART including Animals & Plants, FullCircle and Antigone.

SARA KMACK (Assistant Stage Manager). Pastcredits include: Hoodoo Love (Cherry LaneTheatre Mentor Program), The MagnificentHour - e.t.c… (NY Fringe), Delirium andpierced! - ghostLight Productions (EdinburghFringe), Drip - ATTIC People (EdinburghFringe). Education/Training: Centre College,Actors Theatre of Louisville.

HEATHER J. VIOLANTI (Dramaturg) isdelighted to be doing her first show at the Mint.Previous credits include Valiant (Unofficial NewYork Yale Cabaret) and Massacre at Paris(Blood N Thunder Theatre Company, U.K.).She served as new play development dramaturgfor two Arts Council of England grant projects,After Troy by Maureen McManus and SeptimusSeverus by Beverly Andrews. She has a B.A.from the College of Notre Dame of Marylandand an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and DramaticCriticism from Yale School of Drama.

STUART HOWARD, AMY SCHECTER & PAULHARDT (Casting) have cast hundreds of showsover the past 25 years. Among their favoritesare: Broadway: Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Chicago(Bebe Neuwirth, Ann Reinking), Sly Fox(Richard Dreyfuss), Fortune's Fool (Alan Bates,Frank Langella) & the original La Cage AuxFolles. Off Broadway: I Love You, You'rePerfect, Now Change & The Normal Heart. Atthe Mint: The Skin Game, Walking DownBroadway and Soldier's Wife.

DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (PressRepresentatives) is proud to continue our rela-tionship with Mint. DGA currently representsthe off-Broadway hits Altar Boyz (NYC andNational Tour) and The Awesome 80s Prom(NYC, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Chicago).Other current clients include New WorldStages (the Clinton entertainment complex for-merly known as Dodger Stages), StageHoldings Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre,The Lucille Lortel Foundation, and TheLeague of Off-Broadway Theatres &Producers' annual Lortel Awards (10th year!),which David also writes and co-produces.David serves on the Board of Governors ofATPAM, the Association of Theatrical PressAgents & Managers. Upcoming: The IrishCurse and Jewsical –the Chosen Musical

TED ALTSCHULER (Associate Director)Directing: operas: at New York City Opera,Santa Fe Opera, Rode Hoode (Amsterdam),and Juilliard where he taught for nine yearsPlays include: the long-running, award-win-ning Virginia (Cloud 42, Chicago), On the Verge,The Road to the Graveyard, Hot Fudge, Icarus'sMother, Play with Repeats and The GlassMenagerie. Former Artistic Director of ClavisTheater Ensemble, Milwaukee. Recent proj-ects include: an opera of Poe's A Tell TaleHeart, Georgia O'Keefe x Catherine Rogers, andthe American Premiere of Glyn Maxwell’sBroken Journey with Phoenix TheatreEnsemble. Upcoming productions include Forthe Living and the Dead, created from thepoems of Tomas Transtroemer.

SHERRI KOTIMSKY (General Manager)Produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape,Shyster, Omnium Gatherum, Fear: The IssuesProject and several seasons of workshops andreadings. As Naked Angels Managing Director,managed Hesh and Snakebit. Also producedOnly the End of the World and Blood Orange.Most recently Theatre Manager for the MichaelSchimmel Center for the Arts at PaceUniversity, home to National Actors Theatre,Tribeca Film and Theatre Festivals, River toRiver Festival and the Carol Tambor Awards2005 productions, amongst many others.

JONATHAN BANK (Artistic Director) Bankhas been the artistic director of Mint since 1996where he has unearthed and produced morethan two dozen lost or neglected plays. Bankadapted and directed Arthur Schnitzler's Farand Wide and The Lonely Way which he also co-translated (with Margaret Schaefer). Thesetwo plays were published in a volume entitledArthur Schnitzler Reclaimed which Bank edited.He is also the editor of Worthy But Neglected:Plays of the Mint Theater Company whichincludes his adaptations of Thomas Wolfe'sWelcome to Our City and Edith Wharton's TheHouse of Mirth, both of which he directed,along with five other Mint rediscoveries. Bankalso directed The Truth about Blayds and Mr.Pim Passes By both by A.A. Milne and per-formed in rotating repertory with a singlegroup of actors under the title Milne at theMint. Other directing credits include criticallyacclaimed productions of Ivanov and Othello forthe National Asian American TheaterCompany, John Brown's Body, The Double Bassand Three Days of Rain for the MiniatureTheater of Chester and Candida and Mr. PimPasses By for the Peterborough Players. Thisspring Bank taught directing in the graduateprogram of The New School for Drama. Heearned his M.F.A. from Case Western ReserveUniversity in his hometown of Cleveland, OH.

Technical DirectorAssistant Stage ManagerHair, Wig and Makeup DesignAssociate Costume DesignerAssistant Props DesignerAssistant Lighting DesignerWardrobe SupervisorBoard OperatorRun Crew / Mint Summer InternPiano CaptainCarpenters

Electricians

Painters

House ManagerBox Office Associates

Evan SchlossbergSara KmackSeth Bodie

Suzanne ChesneyLilly ClementsSteve Sakowski

Hunter KaczorowskiAngela Wall

Emily Fleming Matthieu Cornillon

Justin Hollinger, Nick Lazzaro, Brian Williams

Philippe Bachy, John FrankenbergDave Polato, Jesse Wilson

Vanessa Mrovich, Phillipe Belhache

Aaron Glenn MannJean-Marie Catlett, Janel Cooke

Thomas Luczak

Staff for Susan and God

Something old, something new....

Mint is auctioning off the wicker furniture and the babygrand piano from the set of Susan and God. Place your bidon the clipboards in the lobby, or on our website (reservesapply). Winners will be announced at the end of the run.Items will be available for pick up on August 1st. Goodluck!

The Producers would like to thank the following:American Repertory Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, EnsembleStudio Theater, Tiia Torchia, and Nadine of Odds Costume RentalsWigs Provided by WigboysRicola Natural Herb Cough Drops - Courtesy of Ricola USA, Inc