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MYTHS AND HYMNS

Jan 31 – Feb 26, 2012

Music & lyrics by ADAM GUETTEL

with new narrative and direction by Elizabeth Lucas

at the West End Theatre in the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (263 West 86th St., NYC)

Earth, air, water, fire:  A restless daughter, a mother without words, a righteous father, and a lost son.  Venture into one family’s mythologized past as director Elizabeth Lucas (Clear Blue Tuesday) offers her innovative vision for this song cycle by acclaimed composer and lyricist Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza).

“A kaleidoscopically heady musical-theater piece… The songs evoke a kind of human yearning that is as piercing as it is unappeasable: yearning for immortality, true love and God.” – The New York Times

Featuring Linda Balgord*, Ally Bonino, Matthew Farcher, Donell James Foreman*, Anika Larsen*, Lucas Steele*, and Bob Stillman*

Choreographer Wendy Seyb
Musical Supervisor Robert Meffe
Music Director Katya Stanislavskaya
Stage Manager Kristine Ayers*

Scenic design Ann Bartek
Costume design Emily Morgan DeAngelis
Lighting design Herrick Goldman
Sound design Janie Bullard
Casting director Jason Najjoum

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association

This is Rory’s first season with Prospect Theater Company and thus far he has served as assistant director on Iron Curtain. At Barrington Stage Company he was the assistant director on Guys & Dolls, The Best of Enemies, and The Game. A graduate from Wheaton College with a degree in Economics he pursued further study in theater at The National Theater Institute. While there, he discovered his passion for directing and studied all disciplines of theater, including classical and contemporary acting, directing, movement, playwriting, and design.

Nicki is thrilled to be working with Prospect Theater Company. When not working with the fabulous Prospect team, she is working at Manhattan Theatre Club where she is the Assistant to the Artistic Director. While at MTC she has helped with numerous on and Off-Broadway productions including, Good People, Time Stands Still, The Whipping Man, Ruined, and Venus in Fur. She also produced Tempest Toss’d this year at NYMF and has worked at the Summer Play Festival on Tio Pepe, and The Black Suits. She holds a BA in Theater with a minor in business, from Lehigh University.

A recent graduate of Princeton University (B.A. English, Dramatic Literature, minors in Theater, Modern Dance, and Vocal Performance) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (Ed.M, Arts in Education), Simone is a professional singer, dancer, and actor; she has trained, both recreationally and competitively, in jazz, tap, ballet, modern, lyrical, musical theater, contemporary, and hip hop. An Equity performer, she has been featured as a Principal Dancer in Sophisticated Ladies (Inside Broadway), numerous regional tours and Off-Broadway performances, and performed with Prospect for over 10 years including The Taxi Cabaret, The Flood, DIDO (& Aeneas), Evergreen, and The Rockae. Simone is thrilled to be able to bring Prospect to children throughout the Tri-state area.

Jason is originally from northern Virginia. A proud graduate of Emory University, Jason now makes New York City his home. Recent casting credits include Myths & Hymns (Prospect), Dancing at Lunacy, Blood, and Bad Evidence (the cell), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Hive), and numerous readings for Prospect Theater Company, New York Theatre Barn, The Hive, and The Pack. Commercially, Jason has worked at Donna DeSeta Casting, Godlove + Company, Background Inc, Foreground Inc, Strickman-Ripps Casting, and Broadcasters on numerous on-camera commercials, webseries, print campaigns, and other on-camera projects, from Kiefer Sutherland’s webseries The Confession to a commercial for Ford Explorer and a promo for the Oprah Winfrey Network. When not casting, Jason is the Creative Development Associate and an Executive Producer of NYTB in the D-Lounge for New York Theatre Barn, and is a new member of the New York Musical Theater Festival’s Reading Committee and Packawallop Productions’ artists collective, The Pack, and is a proud member of The Hive Theater Company. Recent producing credits include I Married Wyatt Earp (Prospect Theater Co./NY Theatre Barn), Dancing at Lunacy, Blood (the cell), Bandage: A Fight Play (The Brick), Male Matriarch (FringeNYC), Another Place (The Anthropologists at HERE), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Hive), and Bad Evidence (the cell). Jason was an assistant to lead producer Ken Davenport on the Broadway revival of Godspell.

Check out these videos from our archive, and learn more about our shows, history, and the people behind the company.

Behind the IRON CURTAIN – November 2011

In the Studio with the Summer Intensive Program – July 2011

I MARRIED WYATT EARP, Western Women – May 2011

Prospect’s Harvest Festival – November 2010

WITH GLEE Promotional Trailer – July 2010

THE HIDDEN SKY, Interviews – February 2010

THE HIDDEN SKY, Fibonacci Sequence Music Video – January 2010

The Making of a Holiday Show, EVERGREEN – December 2009

EVERGREEN Photo Montage – December 2009

Prospect’s 10th Anniversary Photo Montage – June 2009

THE DOME Montage Video – February 2009

THE DOME Video Shorts: Lost Soles, Baby, Voltaire & Emilie – January 2009

ILLYRIA:  The Making of the Postcard – September 2008