4000 Miles

April 01–May 24

4000 Miles
By Amy Herzog
Directed by Lila Neugebauer

Set 10 years after After the Revolution, 91-year-old grandmother Vera Joseph takes center stage when, after a tragic loss on a cross-country bike trip, her 21-year-old grandson Leo shows up at her apartment. As a one-night stopover turns into an extended stay, these unlikely roommates frustrate, bewilder, and—eventually—connect with each other. In ways funny, raw, and heart-wrenching, grandmother and grandson find the common identity each needs.

The Amy Herzog Festival: 4000 Miles and After the Revolution

Center Stage introduces Baltimore to playwright Amy Herzog, one of the most exciting voices in American theater, through two of her hit plays—staged in repertory for the first time ever. Featuring three generations of one New York family, After the Revolution and 4000 Miles are gripping and surprising examinations of the unending power of family to shape our identities and our lives.

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Lauren LaRocca*
Bec

Lois Markle*
Vera

Jennifer Tsay*
Amanda

Josh Tobin*
Leo

Baltimore Center Stage: After the Revolution/4000 Miles, Old Times, Toys in the Attic. Partial Lists: Broadway—Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Grapes of Wrath; Roundabout: Hedda Gabler,True West. Off-Broadway—The American Dream/The Sandbox (written and directed by Edward Albee); Lincoln Center: Measure for Measure; Circle in the Square: Camino Real; Soho Rep: Two Orphans. Tours—Three Tall Women, After the Fall, Present Laughter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Summer (world premiere, Kennedy Center). Regional—The Old Globe: August: Osage County (Violet, Best Actress Award); Albee’s Women; Trinity Square Rep: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha); Arizona Theatre Company: A Delicate Balance (Claire); Capital Rep: Driving Miss Daisy (Daisy). Film/TV—The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent.

Baltimore Center Stage: 4000 Miles. New York—The Flea: The Mysteries (Martha, Andy, Myriam, Hannah), Job (Rachel), Restoration Comedy; The Pearl Theatre: Pick Your Poison, Learned Ladies (Henriette); Sam French OOB Festival: Burying Barbie (Rachel); Gideon Productions: First Contact (Danielle); Random Access: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero); The Workshop: Psycho Beach Party (Chicklet). Film/TV—Deborah Kampmeier’s Split, We Are the Hartmans, Bored to Death, One Life to Live. Readings and workshops—with Playwrights Horizons/The Lark, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, Ma-Yi, The Flea, The Pearl, Rising Circle Collective, among others. Education—The Studio New York. Producer—–Divided Families (independent documentary film). Professional—Member, The Bats @ The Flea. jennifertsay.com. For Kyle and Jen M.

Creative Team

Amy Herzog
Playwright

Lila Neugebauer
Director

Daniel Zimmerman
Set Designer

Ásta Hostetter
Costume Designer

Eric Southern
Lighting Designer

Brandon Wolcott
Sound Designer

Catherine María Rodríguez
Dramaturg

Stephanie Klapper
Casting Director

Laura Smith*
Stage Manager

Amy Herzog’s plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theater Festival; Playwrights Horizons; Lilly Award), 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center; Obie Award for the Best New American Play, Pulitzer Prize Finalist), The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons), and Belleville (Yale Rep; New York Theatre Workshop; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist; Drama Desk Nomination). Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity, and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW and an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group at Ars Nova, and the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Baltimore Center Stage: Director. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Recent directing work includes AR Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre), Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love (South Coast Rep), Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo (Studio Theatre, DC), Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker (Berkeley Rep), Mallery Avidon’s O guru guru guru and Dorothy Fortenberry’s Partners (2013, 2014 Humana Festivals), Annie Baker’s The Aliens (SF Playhouse; Studio Theatre),The Valley of Fear and Mad Forest(Williamstown), Angels in America and Circle Mirror Transformation (Juilliard), Eliza Clark’s Edgewise (Cherry Lane Studio), and associate directing Karen O’s Stop The Virgens (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Sydney Opera House). As co-Artistic Director of The Mad Ones, Neugebauer conceives/directs ensemble-devised work, including Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (Ars Nova, New Ohio Theatre) and The Essential Straight and Narrow (New Ohio Theatre). Drama League alumna; Ensemble Studio Theatre member; New Georges Affiliated Artist; Princess Grace Award recipient. Upcoming: Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention (Williamstown), Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor (Lincoln Center Theatre), Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking(South Coast Rep), Maria Irene Fornes’ Drowning, Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro (billed together, Signature Theatre).

Baltimore Center Stage: Set Designer. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Off-Broadway—Roundabout Theater Company: Suicide, Incorporated; The Play Company: Call My Brothers; The Pearl Theatre Company: Henry IV, Part 1; Ars Nova: Be a Good Little Widow; Page 73 Productions: You Got Older; The Mint: Fashions For Men. Other New York—Projects with The Woodshed Collective, Colt Coeur, Lesser America, and Slant Theatre Project. Regional—Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Dallas Theatre Center, Trinity Repertory Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Theatreworks Palo Alto, Portland Stage Company, Pioneer Theater Company. Daniel is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb. Education—MFA: NYU Tisch.

Baltimore Center Stage: Lighting Designer. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Recent Projects—Playwright’s Horizon: Pocatello; Rattlestick Theater: The Few, Buyer and Cellar; Barrow Street Theater: Buyer and Cellar; Carnegie Hall: collected stories: memoir (with David Lang); BAM Next Wave Festival: Play/Pause (with Susan Marshall and David Lang); Prototype Festival: Paul’s Case; 600 Highwaymen: Employee of the Year, The Record, Empire City, This Great Country, Everyone is Chanting Your Name. Recent Opera—Avignon Opera House, Armel International Opera Festival: The Secret Agent; Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: The Messiah (fully staged). Others—The Guthrie Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Atlantic Theater Company, Asolo Rep, Virginia Opera, Portland Center Stage, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Arden Theater, Magic Theater, Kansas City Rep, Oregon Shakespeare, Kennedy Center, Asolo Rep, Westport Country Playhouse, UCLA Live Arts, Juilliard School, University of Rochester, Bard College, Colaboration Town, Lesser America, Studio 42, Ohio Theater. Education—BFA, MFA: NYU. Awards—2014 OBIE Award for The Correspondent.

Baltimore Center Stage: Original Music and Sound Design. After the Revolution/4000 Miles. Recent/Notable: The Nether (MCC); Kansas City Choir Boy (Prototype/HERE); The Seagull (Lake Lucille); The Record by 600 Highwaymen (original score); The Good Person of Szechwan and Titus Andronicus at The Public Theater; Kiss the Air (Park Avenue Armory); The Mystery of Irma Vep and The Maids with Red Bull Theater; The Tenant and Confidence Man with Woodshed Collective; So Much Mad in Me (Faye Driscoll). New York—MTC, The Joyce, LaMama, DTW, PS122, 3LD, New Ohio, Clubbed Thumb, and many more. Regional—Two River, Great Lakes, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, The Magic.

Baltimore Center Stage: Marley, One Night in Miami…, Next to Normal, dance of the holy ghosts, Stones in His Pockets, and Wild with Happy. Catherine facilitates Center Stage’s Wright-Right-Now, hosts the Dramaturgy Open Office Hours Project in Baltimore/DC, and is a visiting instructor of dramaturgy in the Department of Drama at Catholic University. In fall 2015, Catherine will sashay away from Baltimore to attend Yale School of Drama. Before she does, she’d like to say to Center Stage & Baltimore: Thanks for being my home, my family; nos vemos hasta pronto. Awards: 2014 Dramaturg Driven Grant, LMDA; 2014 Leadership Institute Fellow, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures; 2013 Regional Student Dramaturgy Award, LMDA & Kennedy Center; 2013 Dramaturgy Debut Panelist, Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Carnegie Mellon: BFA, Dramaturgy; BA, Hispanic Studies. Laissez les bons temps rouler! Adelante.

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: 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.

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“A sterling production.”— The Baltimore Sun

“A tender, genuine play performed by an extremely talented cast and is, what do you call it? Worth seeing.”— MD Theatre Guide

“Engaging, compelling.”— Theatre Bloom

“4000 Miles is an absorbing, fairly brief journey (it's in one, roughly 100-minute act) that touches on youth and aging, ideals and deflating realities, relatives and partners. Mostly, it's about the choices we make, or wish we'd made, and how each one ends up teaching us something, if we're paying attention.””— The Baltimore Sun

“The way [Markle and Tobin] feed off one another naturally from scene to scene, moment to moment, conversation to conversation is genuine and occurs easily.”— MD Theatre Guide

“SLYLY POWERFUL THEATER.”— THE BALTIMORE SUN

“THIS ALTERNATELY SENSITIVE AND SARCASTIC GRANDMOTHER IS PORTRAYED IN BOTH WORKS BY THE SAME EXCEPTIONAL ACTRESS, LOIS MARKLE [WHO] BRINGS TERRIFIC SKILLS AND INSTINCTS TO THE ROLE.”— THE BALTIMORE SUN

“MS. MARKLE’S TIMING IS PERFECT DURING THE INTERACTIONS WITH LEO, PLAYED SUPERBLY BY JOSH TOBIN.”— MD THEATRE GUIDE

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