Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

September 13–October 14

By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Judith Ivey

A SULTRY AMERICAN CLASSIC

In this enduring American classic, family ties and layers of lies collide over the course of one simmering Southern summer night. Themes of morality, greed, and desire play across the stage in this explosive drama about what can happen when illusions begin to unravel. Brick, racked with guilt over his best friend’s death, numbs his pain with drink. Maggie, his wife, is determined to win even fleeting attention from her neglectful husband. But when three generations come together to celebrate a birthday—and discuss a will—all of the players start to crack under the pressure and the heat. How long can tensions build in a house boiling over with uncertainty, secrets, and maybe even love?

Content Advisory: Themes of morality, greed, and desire make this steamy classic more suitable for high-school-aged audiences and up.

Approximate runtime is 2 hours and 45 minutes, including an intermission.

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Charlotte Booker*
Big Mama

Rod Brogan*
Gooper

Nina Brother
Dixie

Paul DeBoy*
Reverend Tooker

Stephanie Gibson
Maggie

Alexis Hyatt*
Mae

Jim Ireland*
Doc Baugh

Leonardo Manni
Buster

Cynthia Miller
Sookey

Andrew Pastides*
Brick

David Schramm*
Big Daddy

Jack St. Pierre
Sonny

Matt DeCaro*
Big Daddy (Sep 27—30)

Baltimore Center Stage: King Lear. Broadway—MTC: Mauritius. Off-Broadway—Irish Rep: Beyond the Horizon, The Burial at Thebes; Mint: Mary Broome; Irondale: Treasure Island. Select Regional—Guthrie: The Cocktail Hour; City Theatre: The Night Alive, Ironbound; Old Globe: Engaging Shaw, Pentecost, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing; TheatreWorks Silicon Valley: Other Desert Cities, Outside Mullingar; CATF: Scott and Hem; Syracuse Stage: Doubt; Bard Summerscape: Judgment Day. Tour—Doubt. Film/TV—The Winning Season; Major Dad (series regular), Homeland, Unforgettable, American Odyssey, Oz, Third Watch, One Life to Live, Law & Order, GirlTalk. Video Game—Grand Theft Auto V. Education—MFA: The Old Globe/University of San Diego.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Broadhurst: Mamma Mia!; Manhattan Theatre Club: Sight Unseen (cover). Off Broadway—Second Stage: Eurydice; St. Clement’s: Edwin, The Story of Edwin Booth; 30th St. Theatre: Ferguson; NYMF: Swiss Family Robinson. Tours—North America: Mamma Mia!; FPA: Martin Luther on Trial. Regional—Syracuse Stage/The Wilma: The Christians; Indiana Rep: Appoggiatura; Denver Center: All the Way; CATF: Everything is Wonderful, We Will Not Be Silent; Rep Theatre St. Louis: The 39 Steps, The Pillowman (and 15 others); The Pioneer Theatre: My Fair Lady, The Real Thing; Cincinnati Playhouse: Sylvia, The Clean House, Caine Mutiny; The Olney: Blithe Spirit. Film/TV—All four Law & Orders, The Blacklist: Redemption, Royal Pains, The Following, A Dirty Shame. IG—@pauladeboy

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Cherry Sunday), Cinderella (Gabrielle), Spamalot, The Addams Family. National Tours—A Chorus Line (Judy Turner); Happy Days (Lori Beth). Other New York—City Center Encores!: Anyone Can Whistle; 54 Below: Glitter, Goblets & Gatos (One Woman Show). Regional—Cape Playhouse: Cabaret (Sally Bowles); Theatre Under the Stars: Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife); MUNY: Young Frankenstein (Inga); Bucks County Playhouse: Rocky Horror Show (Janet); La Mirada: Empire (Frankie Peterson). TV/Film—Happy! (recurring role of Pixley, SYFY); Person of Interest (CBS); Up All Night (NBC); The Union (dir. J. Thibodeau); Flamingo Love (dir. AJP); The Audition (Seth & Avi); You Must Be Joking (dir. Jake Wilson); Performance on 67th Annual Tony Awards (CBS); David Letterman (CBS), Live with Kelly and Michael (ABC). Web—Dates, Mates & Clean Slates (Co-Writer alongside Julie Lubeck); Rare Birds of Fashion (dir. Lily-Hayes Kaufman); SNAFU. Education—BFA: Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. @StephGib1

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway—Jewish Repertory Theater: The Shawl (w/ Dianne Wiest, dir. Sidney Lumet); Chashama 42nd St: Motherbird by Craig Lucas (original cast); The Lion: Ephemera. Regional—Arena Stage: Every Tongue Confess (w/ Phylicia Rashad, dir. Kenny Leon); The Repertory Theater of St. Louis: All My Sons; The Walnut Street Theater: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Philadelphia Area Repertory Theater: Twelfth Night (dir. Gregory Doran, RSC), Wilma Theatre: Macbett; Arden Theatre: Man and Superman; Orlando Shakespeare Theater: King Lear, Julius Caesar, Taming of The Shrew, Race, Yankee Tavern. TV—Blue Bloods, Bull, The Mysteries of Laura, Mercy, Law & Order.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off-Broadway—59 E59: Lovesong; Barrow Group: Makeout Session. Regional—Magic Theatre: Fool for Love, Goldfish; Denver Center:Tribes; Merrimack Rep: Half and Half and Half; Two River Theatre: The Glass Menagerie, Tartuffe; The Cleveland Playhouse: The Chosen; The Arizona Theatre Co.: Molly’s Delicious; Theatre Alliance: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. TV/Film—Blue Bloods (CBS), Law and Order (NBC), Suits (USA), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), The Bit Player (dir. Mark Levinson), Dish (dir. Isabele Teitler) Home is Where the Heart Aches (dir. Julien Levi), Deja View (dir. Phillip Van), Hank and Asha (dir. James Duff), Si NosDejan (dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall), The Audition, and Gray Dog (dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall), Mrs. Tenderfoot Takes a Lover (dir. Melissa Tomjanovich), Shadows and Lies (dir. JayAnania), Year One (dir. S.G. Past), and MA (Venice, Tribeca Film Fest, dir. Celia Rowlson-Hall). Awards—Ernie Award (Best Actor), Henry Award (Best Actor nom) Napa Valley FILM Fest. (Best Actor), Slamdance (Audience Award). Professional—Teacher/Director. Education—Andrew is a graduate of The SCGSAH and The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. andrewpastides.com

David Schramm has had a career full of firsts. As a young apprentice he helped to create Actors of Louisville, which grew into Actors Theatre of Louisville, one of the most respected regional theatres in the country. He was among the first class of the Julliard School’s Drama Division, the now infamous Group 1; fellow Group-1ers include Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Gerry Gutierrez, Mary Lou Rosato, and David Ogden Stiers. Also under the guidance of John Houseman, those graduates were founding members of The Acting Co. now in its 47th season. Debuts include The Boys Next Door (Norman), Other People’s Money, The Robber Bridegroom (Clement), and the American premiere of two Ayckbourn plays, Man of the Moment and A Chorus of Disapproval. Classic roles include Propsero (twice), Brutus, Angelo Boyet, and King Lear directed by John Houseman. Movies include Ragtime, Johnny Handsome, A Shock to the System, and Let It Ride. TV—too many guest spots (often as killer-of-the-week) to mention, most prominently on Working Girl (w/ Sandra Bullock) and eight seasons as Roy Biggins on NBC’s Wings.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—select credits include The Drury Lane Theater: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Big Daddy); The Asolo Repertory Theater: The Great Society (LBJ); The Little Foxes(Oscar Hubbard); Frank Galati’s Rhinoceros (Gene); Timeline Theater: The Audience (Winston Churchill and Harold Wilson); Lincoln Center; Manhattan Theatre Club; The Goodman Theatre: David Mamet’s Romance (The Judge), Heartbreak House (Boss Mangan); The Guthrie Theatre: The White Snake (Fa Hai, also at Goodman and McCarter); Steppenwolf Theatre: Glengarry Glen Ross (Dave Moss); The Old Globe Theatre; San Francisco’s A.C.T.; Briar Street Theatre: Driving Miss Daisy (Boolie). International—Dublin, Toronto, and China. TV/Film—credits include The Wise Kids, Eagle Eye, House, and The Office, among many others.

Creative Team

Judith Ivey
Director

Adam Kock
Scenic Designer

Joseph G. Aulisi
Costume Designer

John Ambrosone
Lighting Designer

Victoria Deiorio
Sound Designer

Kendall Simpson
Composer

Sordelet Ink/Rick Sordelet
Fight Director

Gavin Witt
Production Dramaturg

Danielle Teague-Daniels*
Stage Manager

Erin Edelstein*
Assistant Stage Manager

Bailey Bass
Assistant Director

Pat McCorkle
Casting

Katja Zarolinski
Casting

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Directing—recent credits include the Public Theatre in Maine: The Ladies Foursome; North Coast Rep and Laguna Playhouse in California: Chapatti; Alliance Theatre: Steel Magnolias, Carapace (world premiere, Bass Award nom); Pasadena Playhouse and Second Stage-NYC: Vanities The Musical; Snapple Theatre-NYC: Secrets of a Soccermom; Second Stage-NYC: The Butcher of Baraboo; Cherry Lane Theatre: Fugue; Primary Stages-NYC: Southern Comforts; Northlight Theatre-Chicago and Laguna Playhouse: Bad Dates; Falcon Theatre-CA and Darryl Roth Theatre-NYC: More. Acting credits include Broadway—Bedroom Farce (with David Schramm), Piaf, Steaming, Hurlyburly, Precious Sons, Blithe Spirit, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (Tony nom), Voices in the Dark, Follies, The Heiress (Tony nom), The Audience. Regional—Long Wharf Theatre: Fireflies (Grace); ACT-San Francisco: The Birthday Party (Meg); The Glass Menagerie (Amanda, Lucille Lortel Award). She also co-stars in the web series The Accidental Wolf. Film—Over 40 films including Devil’s Advocate, Washington Square, Mystery, Alaska, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Love Hurts, Compromising Positions, What Alice Found, Flags of Our Fathers, A Bird of the Air, Big Stone Gap, Cortez, Through a Glass Darkly. TV—Designing Women; The Long, Hot Summer; What the Deaf Man Heard (Emmy nom); Rosered; Nurse Jackie; A Person of Interest; White Collar; Grey’s Anatomy; Law and Order: SVU; The Family; Bloodline; Instinct. Awards—Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Steaming and Hurlyburly, the Obie Award for The Moonshot Tape, and countless others for her stage and film work. Recipient of the Texas Medal for the Arts and inducted in the Texas Film Hall of Fame.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Off Broadway—Rooms: A Rock Romance. International—Dreamgirls (Seoul). Regional—Signature Theatre: Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Helen Hayes nomination); Serenbe Playhouse: Titanic (outdoor), 1st Stage: Bat Boy (Helen Hayes nomination); Ford’s Theatre; Goodspeed Musicals; Paper Mill Playhouse; Tuacahn Amphitheatre; The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Music Theatre of Wichita; Cincinnati Playhouse; Geva Theatre Center; Fulton Theatre; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma; Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Ogunquit Playhouse; Syracuse Stage; Bucks County Playhouse; and Portland Stage. Other—For the past five years Adam and Steven Royal have jointly designed theater, film, and live events across the country including the official events for New York City Pride. adamkochassociates.com; Instagram: @instadamkoch

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Long history in design for theater and film. Broadway—30+ shows have been directed by Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett, Gower Champion, Harold Pinter, Gene Saks, and numerous others. Film—50+ include Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerwitz Stories, Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Taking Woodstock, Charlie’s Angels 1 & 2, Pink Panther 1 & 2, Nobody’s Fool, Stepmom, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Die Hard With A Vengeance, Three Days of the Condor, Bowfinger, Shaft, The Secret of My Success. TV—Smash, Bernard and Doris. Awards—Nominated for 2 Emmys, 3 Costume Design Guild Awards, A Drama Desk Award, and an Obie.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Broadway—David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood. Off-Broadway—New York Theatre Workshop: Nocturne; 59E59 Theaters—Uncanny Valley. Tour—The King Stag. International—Teatre Municipal (Sao Paulo, Brazil); France 3 Television Studios (Strasbourg, France); Theatro Des Westens (Berlin, Germany); Tokyo Globe Theatre (Japan); Royal Court and Royal Shakespeare theaters (London); Manuel Doblado Theatre (Leon, Mexico); Festival of the Arts (Singapore); Moscow Art Theatre (Russia); Taipei National Theatre (Taiwan). Regional—American Repertory Theatre (45+ productions as Resident Lighting Designer), Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Arena Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Capitol Repertory, Clarence Brown Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, CATF, The Gravity Project, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, McCarter, Merrimack Repertory, North Shore Music Theatre, People’s Light & Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Playmaker’s Repertory Company, Prince Music Theatre, Ridge Theatre, Royal George Theatre of Chicago, Theatre Squared, Trinity Repertory Company, and Virginia Stage Company. Academic—Head of Lighting Design (Virginia Tech). johnambrosone.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: debut. Regional—Alliance: Sheltered (dir. Kimberly Senior); The Temple Bombing (dir. Jimmy Maize), Steel Magnolias, (dir. Judith Ivey), In Love and Warcraft (dir. Laura Kepley), Warrior Class (dir. Eric Ting), The Whipping Man (dir. Alex Greenfild), Bike America (dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel), Apples and Oranges (World Premiere, A. Uhry/dir. Lynne Meadow), I Just Stopped By to See the Man (dir. Ron Parson), Broke (dir. Jason Loweth), False Creeds (dir. Wendy Goldberg), Eurydice (dir. R. Garner); Georgia Shakespeare: As You Like It, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Metamorphoses, The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Antigone (musical, R. Garner/K. Simpson). Music for Dance—Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Papillon; Emory Dance: Path, Island, We the Living, Inside the Crevice, Carnival Mask. Music for Film/Video—Zelda (Sesame Street); Under the Boardwalk (Georgia Aquarium); The Promotion; Twin Set; The Voicemaker; The Etiquette Man; The Initiate. Commissions—Southern Progression (Chamber Music America); Within Reach (Dekalb Symphony Orchestra); Island (Vega Quartet); Professional—Music Director Dance Department at Emory University.

Rick and his son, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, are the creators of Sordelet Ink. Baltimore Center Stage: Shakespeare in Love, Jazz, The White Snake, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Broadway—72 shows including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Eclipsed. National Tours—Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables. International—53 productions including Tarzan, Aida, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Ben Hur Live (Rome and European tour). Opera—The Met Opera: Cyrano(w/ Placido Domingo), Don Carlo(dir. Nicholas Hytner); The Royal Opera House; La Scalia (Milan). Film—The Game Plan, Dan in Real Life, Brave New Jersey, LIV, Hamlet. TV—CBS: Guiding Light (Chief Stunt Coordinator for 12 years); Kevin Can Wait. Instructor—Yale School of Drama. Awards—Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel Foundation; Jeff Award for Outstanding Fight Director for Romeo and Juliet at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Author—Buried Treasure, Choices. sordeletink.com

Director of Dramaturgy and Associate Director Gavin Witt came to Baltimore Center Stage in 2003, after nearly 15 years in Chicago as an actor, director, dramaturg, translator, and teacher—and co-founder of the classically based greasy joan & co theater. Among his translations and adaptations are a half-dozen Shakespeare plays, including a Jeff-nominated version of Pericles and the BCS production of As You Like It; Jeff-nominated translations of Beaumarchais’ The Barber of Seville and Ionesco’s Macbett; and the BCS adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. A graduate of Yale and the University of Chicago, he is currently on the Humanities faculty at Peabody Conservatory, having previously taught at the University of Chicago, DePaul, and Towson; has served on the advisory boards of several theaters; and spent more than a decade as a regional vice president of LMDA, the national association of dramaturgs, before recently joining its board.

Baltimore Center Stage: How to Catch Creation, A Wonder in my Soul, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, SOUL The Stax Musical, The Christians. For the past 18 years, she has worked and reprised her role as SM with many companies including: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Clubbed Thumb, 3LD, Lee Strasberg Institute, LAByrinth Theater, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Big Apple Circus, NYU Steinhardt and New Dramatists. She’s also wrapped up Bello Mania at the New Victory Theater on 42nd St. She has also worked on two Broadway Bound workshops: The Donna Summer Project (La Jolla Playhouse) and Ain’t Too Proud (Berkeley Rep). Danielle also worked on Michael Kors’ fashion show in Shanghai, China.

Baltimore Center Stage: A Wonder in My Soul, King of the Yees, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, SOUL The Stax Musical, Mobile Unit Twelfth Night, Animal Farm, Skeleton Crew, Lookingglass Alice, The Christians, Jazz, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Detroit ’67, As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Marley, One Night in Miami…, Amadeus, Wild with Happy, Twelfth Night, A Civil War Christmas. Broadway—Amazing Grace, On the Town, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers, A Few Good Men, etc. Off-Broadway—Clever Little Lies, Dr. Ruth, Stalking the Bogeyman, Freud’s Last Session, Tribes, Our Town, Almost Maine and Driving Miss Daisy. Over 50 regional theaters—Guthrie, George Street Theatre, Connecticut Rep, Pittsburgh Public, Barrington Stage. Over 60 films—Senior Moment, Year by the Sea, Child of Grace, Premium Rush, Ghost Town, Secret Window, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, The Thomas Crown Affair, The 13th Warrior, Madeline, Die Hard III, School Ties. TV/Web—Planned Parenthood series Talkin’ About, Twisted, Sesame Street, Californication (Emmy nom), Max Bickford, Hack, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, Chappelle’s Show. mccorklecasting.com

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“Extraordinary portrayals”— WYPR

“Riveting”— Jmore

“Enough to set any viewer’s heart aflame.”— DC Metro Theater Arts

“Handsome production”— Broadway World

“Magnificent”— CultureSeen4u

“DYNAMIC REVIVAL”— BALTIMORE SUN

“IVEY HAS HELMED A REALLY ADMIRABLE PRODUCTION.”— Broadway World

“TERRIFIC-LOOKING REVIVAL, WITH ITS SPOT-ON SET AND COSTUMES.”— BALTIMORE SUN

“SCENIC DESIGNER ADAM KOCH AND LIGHTING DESIGNER JOHN AMBROSONE HAVE FASHIONED A SUMPTUOUS PLANTATION HOME.”— DC THEATRE SCENE

“STEPHANIE GIBSON STRIKES DYNAMIC NOTES OF SEXINESS, NEEDINESS, REGRET AND DETERMINATION AS MAGGIE.”— BALTIMORE SUN

“ADDING DEFT AND ENDEARING SUPPORT IS CHARLOTTE BOOKER AS LONG-SUFFERING BIG MAMA.”— BALTIMORE SUN

“STEPHANIE GIBSON IS EVERYTHING ONE COULD WANT IN A MAGGIE, DETERMINED AND SCRAPPY AND SMART AND SEXY. ANDREW PASTIDES DOES WHAT MAY BE HARDEST FOR A BRICK, HOLDING FAST TO A COMPARATIVELY FLAT AFFECT, FLAT ENOUGH TO RENDER HIS THOUGHTS AND MOTIVATIONS MYSTERIOUS, WHILE EVERYONE AROUND HIM IS ACTING UP A STORM…. I'VE SEEN MY SHARE OF BIG DADDYS, AND I THINK SCHRAMM IS THE BEST I'VE ENCOUNTERED.”— Broadway World

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