Mud Blue Sky

March 06–April 14

Mud Blue Sky
World Premiere by Marisa Wegrzyn
Directed by Susanna Gellert

In a nondescript hotel room near O’Hare Airport, three flight attendants and an unlikely fourth companion poise on the brink of looking back and moving ahead.

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Cast

Susan Rome*
Beth

Eva Kaminsky*
Sam

Justin Kruger*
Jonathan

Cynthia Darlow*
Angie

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution, Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, An Enemy of the People, Mud Blue Sky (world premiere). Regional— Rep Stage: The Whale, Las Meninas, A Shayna Maidel; Theater J: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…, The Argument, After the Revolution (HH nominee), The Moscows of Nantucket, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Seder, Spring Forward/Fall Back, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (upcoming); Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: Richard III, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well; Mark Taper Forum: The Substance of Fire; Seattle Center Stage: The Legacy. TV—credits include NYPD Blue and four seasons as DA Ilene Nathan on The Wire. Films—include John Waters’ A Dirty Shame; My One and Only.

Baltimore Center Stage: Mud Blue Sky. Broadway—The Lyons. Off Broadway/Other New York—Roundabout Theatre Company: The Language Archive; The Play Company: Made in Poland; Partial Comfort: ’Nami; Broken Watch: The Safety Net. National Tour—The Syringa Tree. Regional—Old Globe: Good People (Craig Noel Award nom); Alley Theatre: August: Osage County; Cincinnati Playhouse: God of Carnage, 1:23 (Acclaim Award); CATF: Breadcrumbs & Lidless; Long Wharf & ACT: The Syringa Tree; Cleveland Play House: A Small Family Business, Laughter on the 23^rd Floor; Syracuse Stage: The Real Thing; Hartford TheaterWorks: Speech & Debate; and many others. Film/TV— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Just Like the Son, Mercy, Ugly Betty, Gossip Girl, ER, Numb3rs, Royal Pains, and all the Law & Order series. She is also an audiobook narrator, her most recent being Mary Coin by Marisa Silver, out this spring. Love to B.

Baltimore Center Stage: Mud Blue Sky. Broadway—Billy Elliot, Accent on Youth, Old Acquaintance, Rabbit Hole, Taller Than a Dwarf, Present Laughter, Sex and Longing, Prelude to a Kiss, Rumors, the original production of Grease. Off Broadway—The Late Christopher Bean, Lovers, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Home, The Runner Stumbles, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed, Juno and the Paycock, Cider House Rules, June Moon, Death Defying Acts, Mere Mortals, Sister Mary Ignatius…. Regional—Many credits, including founding member of the American Repertory Theatre. Film/TV—credits include The Savages, 25th Hour, The Thomas Crown Affair, Garden State, Elementary, The Sopranos, Six Degrees, Soul Man, Law and Order, L&O: CI, L&O: SVU, Square One TV for the Children’s Television Workshop (five seasons as a series regular). Education—University of North Carolina School of the Arts; Penn State; Rose Bruford Training School of Speech and Drama, England. Professional— narrator of many audio books, most notably the Murder She Wrote series for the BBC; member of The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) in New York, and The Actor’s Center; AEA,CAEA, SAG-AFTRA.

Creative Team

Susanna Gellert
Director

Neil Patel
Scenic Designer

Scott Zielinski
Lighting Designer

Victoria Deiorio
Sound Designer

Jennifer Moeller
Costume Designer

Kellie Mecleary
Dramaturg

Stephanie Klapper
Casting Director

Captain Kate Murphy*
Stage Manager

Laura Smith*
Assistant Stage Manager

Baltimore Center Stage: Bus Stop, Mud Blue Sky. Susanna Gellert joined Baltimore Center Stage in January 2012. Prior to joining Baltimore Center Stage, she received a Masters from the subcommittee on Theater Studies at the English Department of Columbia University. Recent directing projects include Bus Stop by William Inge, Mud Blue Sky by Marisa Wegrzyn, Bar Joke by Sam Allingham (Old American Can Factory), Open the Dark Door by David Nugent (New York Music Theater Festival), Visiting Day by Andy Bragen (Sewanee Writers’ Conference), Fugue States (PS 122), You Can’t Take It With You (University of Rochester), The Boss in the Satin Kimono (New York International Fringe Festival), The Duchess of Malfi (FSU/Asolo Conservatory), and Marat/Sade (The Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College). Additional New York directing credits include The Lacy Project (Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory ’07, the Ohio Theater), adaptations of Tamburlaine the Great and Valkyrie (Target Margin Theater’s Laboratory), Match and L’Interieur (American Living Room), as well as workshops at the Lark, EST, and NYU. Susanna has taught at the University of Rochester, Bard College, Columbia University, and NYU. Susanna was the founding Artistic Director of Chicago’s I-80 Drama Co. and an associate artist at Target Margin Theater. Currently, she is a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design Group and the Women’s Project Directors’ Lab. A recipient of SDCF’s Sir John Gielgud Fellowship and the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize, Susanna is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and The University of Chicago.

Baltimore Center Stage: Marley, dance of the holy ghosts, Animal Crackers, Mud Blue Sky, The Mountaintop, The Whipping Man, American Buffalo, Working it Out, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Once on This Island, Elmina’s Kitchen, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Hostage, As You Like It, many others. Broadway—Soul Doctor; Oleanna; Wonderland; [title of show]; Ring of Fire; ’night, Mother; Sideman (also West End & Kennedy Center). Off Broadway—Civilians: Pretty Filthy, This Beautiful City; Signature Theatre: stop.reset, My Children! My Africa!; Second Stage: Water by the Spoonful, By the way, Meet Vera Stark, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Peter & Jerry, Living Out; Roundabout: McReele, Hurrah at Last; Vineyard: Now.Here.This., The Long Christmas Ride Home; MTC: The Lion, Between Us, Glimmer Glimmer and Shine; MCC: The Mercy Seat; NYTW: The Beard of Avon, Lydie Breeze, Resident Alien, A Question of Mercy, Bob, Quills, Slavs!; Playwrights Horizons: Mr. Burns a Post Electric Play, Stage Kiss, Lobster Alice, On the Mountain; Public/NYSF: Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), Dirty Tricks, Othello. Film/TV—Some Velvet Morning, Loitering With Intent, Dil Dhadakne Do, In Treatment (HBO), Billy and Billie (DirecTV). Awards—Obie Award (2), Helen Hayes Award, Eddy Award, Hewes nom (5), Drama Desk nom (3).

Baltimore Center Stage — Mud Blue Sky, The Mountaintop, Intimate Apparel, Fall. Broadway—Topdog/Underdog. New York—Atlantic Theater, Classic Stage Company, Public Theater, Lincoln Center Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience, others. International—Productions in Adelaide, Amsterdam, Avignon, Berlin, Bregenz, Edinburgh, Fukuoka, Gennevilliers, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Linz, London, Lyon, Melbourne, Orleans, Oslo, Ottawa, Paris, Reykjavik, Rotterdam, Rouen, St. Gallen, Singapore, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Vilnius, Zurich, others. Regional—Most theaters throughout the U.S. Dance—American Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival, Houston Ballet, Joyce, San Francisco Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, others. Opera—Brooklyn Academy of Music, Canadian Opera, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lithuanian National Opera, Nederlandse Opera, New York City Opera, Opera de Rouen, Royal Opera House London, San Francisco Opera, Spoleto Festival, others. scottzielinski.com

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus, Mud Blue Sky, The Mountaintop, Working It Out. Off Broadway—Sheen Center: Nine Circles; St. Clement’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Active Theatre: Two Point Oh; Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater: Cassie’s Chimera; Steppenwolf at The Duke: The Bluest Eye; NYMTF: Arnie the Doughnut; NYC Fringe Festival at The Connelly: Ophelia. Regional—Oregon Shakespeare; The Goodman; Steppenwolf; Hartford Stage; Long Wharf Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Chautauqua Theater Company; Indiana Repertory; Milwaukee Repertory; and many other theaters in and around Chicago, NY, and LA. Awards—Nominated for 13 and winning seven Joseph Jefferson Awards, two After Dark Awards, and a SALT Award. Professional—Head of Sound Design for The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, and Co-Chair of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association. victoria-sound-design.com

Baltimore Center Stage: Mud Blue Sky. Off Broadway—Signature Theatre: Dance and the Railroad; Primary Stages: Happy Now?; Women’s Project: Crooked. Regional—Shakespeare Theatre Company: A Midsummer NIght’s Dream, Merchant of Venice, Romeo & Juliet, Tamburlaine, Richard III; Studio Theatre: Bachelorette, Venus in Fur; McCarter: The How and the Why; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Six Degrees of Separation; Yale Rep: Winter’s Tale, Dance of the Holy Ghosts; Barrington Stage: Sweeney Todd; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Waiting for Godot. Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors (ASM); Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea, [sic]; Catalyst: Cloud 9; Longacre Lea: Man with Bags.

Baltimore Center Stage: An Enemy of the People, Mud Blue Sky. Kellie holds a Master’s Degree in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA in English and Theater from Goucher College. Other Center Stage credits include Production Dramaturg for Mud Blue Sky, An Enemy of the People, A Skull in Connemara, American Buffalo, and co-producer of the Pub Lab Series. Other Baltimore credits: BROS: Murdercastle; Single Carrot Theatre: Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Milk Milk Lemonade. Previously New York based, she has worked as a dramaturg, director, critic, producer, administrator, and stage manager with various organizations including Brave New World Repertory Company, Pipeline Theater Company, WOW Café Theater, Manhattan Theater Source, and Vital Theater. Her writing has been published through Cerise Press and OffOffOnline.com.

Baltimore Center Stage: That Face, The White Snake, The Secret Garden, Herzog Festival (4000 Miles and After the Revolution), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Next to Normal, Vanya and Sonia…, Stones in His Pockets, dance of the holy ghosts, …Poe, The Whipping Man, A Skull in Connemara. Selected credits include: Broadway—Bronx Bombers; A Christmas Story, The Musical; Dividing the Estate; Bells Are Ringing; It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. Off Broadway—Daniel’s Husband; That Golden Girls Show!; Fade; Exit Strategy; The Roads to Home; Informed Consent; The Winter’s Tale; The Glass Menagerie; Billy Porter’s While I Yet Live; The Model Apartment; Emotional Creature; Karen O’s Stop the Virgens!. Regional—Many theaters including: Asolo, Canadian Stage Company; Cincinnati Playhouse, Capital Rep, Ford’s Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Kansas City Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Berkeley Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Company, Old Globe Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Film/TV—Another Dance With Death; Poor Behavior; Stag; Alice Jacobs is Dead, Roberta, Feast of the Goat; Sidewalk Stories. TV—Lazytown. Member—Casting Society of America and League of Professional Theatre Women.

Baltimore Center Stage: One Night in Miami…, Next to Normal, Animal Crackers, Mud Blue Sky, The Mountaintop, …Edgar Allan Poe, A Skull in Connemara, American Buffalo, Crime & Punishment, Let There Be Love, The Santaland Diaries, The Importance of Being Earnest, Things of Dry Hours, Trouble in Mind, Three Sisters, Radio Golf, The Murder of Isaac, Once on This Island, King Lear. Regional—Trinity Rep: Boeing-Boeing; Actors Theatre of Louisville: All Hail Hurricane Gordo*, The Clean House, Moot the Messenger*, Dracula, The Ruby Sunrise*, Tall Grass Gothic*, The Drawer Boy, Amadeus, As You Like It (*premieres at the Humana Festival of New American Plays); Contemporary American Theater Festival: The Overwhelming, Pig Farm; Totem Pole Playhouse: Over 75 productions through 13 summer stock seasons. Film/TV—Route 30, Route 30 Too!, The Father and the Bear, Next Food Network Star. Professional—Director of Stage Management at Virginia Tech University. Proud Actors Equity and ASCAP Member. For Whitney – with love and gratitude.

Baltimore Center Stage: Detroit ’67, As You Like It; 4000 Miles; After the Revolution; It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Amadeus; Wild with Happy; Twelfth Night; Stones in His Pockets; dance of the holy ghosts; Clybourne Park; Beneatha’s Place; The Mountaintop; Bus Stop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; Gleam; The Rivals; Snow Falling on Cedars; Cyrano; Working it Out; Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Regional—Shakespeare Theater Company: Salome; Contemporary American Theater Festival: World Builders; Everyman: Pygmalion, Shipwrecked, The Exonerated, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Gem of the Ocean, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Yellowman; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables, Vigils, After Ashley; Folger: Measure for Measure, Olney Theatre: Stuff Happens; Theater Alliance: Headsman’s Holiday, Pangea.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

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Reviews

“extremely entertaining, with top flight performances by the entire company”— BroadwayWorld

“...'Mud Blue' lands beautifully, ending fast and hard.”— The Washington Post

“beautifully cast...a tight, comical and eventful one-act”— The Baltimore Sun

“I’ve long hoped that this Great Recession would revive a sense of gallows humor on the American stage, and Wegrzyn has obliged.”— City Paper

“hands down one of the most nuanced, coherent shows to come out of Baltimore this season...it’s entertaining, magnificently cast, funny and poignant; in short, all the things necessary for a great night at the theatre.”— MD Theatre Guide

“DELIGHTFULLY DEVILISH”— BALTIMORE POST EXAMINER

“A SNAPPY, SOBERINGLY SNARKY SHOW”— DC THEATRE SCENE

“AN EDGY...HUMOR THAT ENGAGES THE MIND AND INDULGES THE SENSES”— DC METRO THEATRE ARTS

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03.17.13: The Washington Post—‘Mud Blue Sky’ at Center Stage is a beautiful story about scraping by
04.02.13: BroadwayWorld—Fly The Muddy Skies: MUD BLUE SKY at Center Stage
03.14.13: DC Metro Theatre Arts—'Mud Blue Sky' at CENTERSTAGE

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