The Little Foxes

LILLIAN HELLMAN

Playwright

was an American dramatist and screenwriter. Broadway credits include Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Children’s Hour and The Little Foxes. Her screenplay adaptation of The Little Foxes, starring Bette Davis, received an Academy Award nomination in 1942. Her honors include two New York Drama Critics Circle Awards; a Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Theater from the Academy of Arts and Letters; and a National Book Award for An Unfinished Woman. As a teacher and scholar she was well-respected, and her political involvement was integral in the fight against fascism at home and abroad. Lillian will be remembered not only as an activist, playwright and memoirist, but as a woman who could overcome the hurdles of her time and succeed on her own terms.

KYLE DONNELLY

Director

Arena Stage credits include All the Way; Other Desert Cities; Ah, Wilderness!; Well; The Women; Born Yesterday; She Loves Me; Polk County (Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical); Dancing at Lughnasa (Helen Hayes Award for Best Production); Misalliance; Tom Walker; Shakespeare in Hollywood; Lovers and Executioners; Summer and Smoke; and School for Wives, as well as being associate artistic director. Additional credits include Seattle Repertory, Steppenwolf, Huntington, Goodman, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkeley Repertory, McCarter, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Studio Theatre, Humana Festival and Alliance Theatre and Roundabout. Awards include TCG’s Alan Schneider Director Award. Kyle is the head of the M.F.A. professional actor training program at the University of California, San Diego.

MIKIKO SUZUKI MACADAMS

Set Designer

work has been seen off-Broadway at Epic Theatre Ensemble, INTAR Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Working Theater and NAATC. Regional credits include Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Old Globe, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cornerstone Theater Company, Intiman Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Yale Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, among others. International work has been seen at Aichi Triennale, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Nissei Theatre, Nikikai Opera Theatre and Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. As an associate scenic designer, her Broadway credits include Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, The Bridges of Madison County, Golden Boy and more. www.Mikikosuzukimacadams.com

JESS GOLDSTEIN

Costumer Designer

Arena Stage credits include Baskerville and Tintypes. Broadway and New York credits include On the Town; Jersey Boys; Newsies; Proof; How I Learned to Drive; Take Me Out; Love! Valour! Compassion!; and Buried Child. He received a 2005 Tony Award for The Rivalsand Tony nominations for Henry IV and The Merchant of Venice. Jess also designs opera, most notably Il Trittico (Metropolitan Opera), and his film designs include Tony Goldwyn’s A Walk on the Moon. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and has taught costume design there since 1990. He was the 2012 winner of the Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration, and 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Award for Lifetime Achievement.

NANCY SCHERTLER

Lighting Designer

began her career as an intern at Arena Stage 40 years ago. Arena has provided her with the opportunity to learn from and design for some of the finest directors, including Zelda Fichandler, Liviu Ciulei, Kyle Donnelly, Garland Wright, Douglas C. Wager and Molly Smith. Broadway productions include Bill Irwin’s Fool Moon and Largely New York (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway designs include Hilda, Texts for Nothing and The Regard Evening. She has designed for regional theaters across the country, including the American Conservatory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The McCarter Theatre, Portland Center Stage and Seattle Repertory Theatre. World-premiere opera productions include The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, commissioned by The American Conservatory Theatre, and Shadowboxer, Clara and Later the Same Evening, commissioned by the University of Maryland Opera Studio.

RYAN RUMERY

Original Composition and Sound Designer

is a musician, composer and producer. His music is featured in the films How to Let Go of the World (Sundance 2016, HBO); City of Gold (Sundance and SXSW 2015, IFC/Sundance Selects); and And, Apart. Recent theatrical scores include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Between Riverside and Crazy (Atlantic/Second Stage) and Fool For Love (Broadway). As a drummer, he performs with the Obie Award-winning The Secret City, Jeremy Bass and Big Weather. Rumery was Sound Consultant for Sufjan Stevens’ Round-Up at the Barbican and Edinburgh International Festival. He recently produced two albums for Jeremy Bass: Winter Bare and New York in Spring; the title track from the latter album won the John Lennon Songwriting Prize. Additional albums include his own, Riverside, Outside Mullinger, 4000 Miles and Ivanov.

ANNE NESMITH

Wig Designer

is pleased to return to Arena Stage, where her design credits include All the Way, Oliver!, Destiny of Desire, Fiddler on the Roof, Mother Courage and Her Children, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Other Desert Cities and The Music Man. Her recent work includes La Cage aux Folles (Signature Theatre); La Boheme and L’Opera Seria at Wolftrap Opera; and Cosi fan tutte (Nishinomiya, Japan) and 110 in the Shade (Ford’s Theatre). Her designs have been seen at the Kennedy Center, Opera Philadelphia, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington Ballet and Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, Japan. Anne was the resident wig/makeup designer for the Baltimore Opera and has created wigs for Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery programs, Investigation Discovery’s Ice Cold Killers, Maryland Public Television and the U.S. Army’s tour Spirit of America.

JOE ISENBERG

Fight Director

choreography credits include productions at Bard Summerscape 2016, Washington National Opera, the Kennedy Center Theatre For Young Audiences, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theatre J, Humana Festival 2011 and 2012, Florida Stage and InterAct Theatre. He assisted at Folger Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare Festival and The Metropolitan Opera. Joe has been a guest teacher at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Howard University, Georgetown University and The Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Awards include the 2013 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Choreography, Society of American Fight Directors 2010 Swashbuckler of the Year Award and Kennedy Center/Keenan Fund for the Arts, Fight Choreographer in Residence for 2010-11. Joe is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Drama.

MARY COY

Dialect Coach

Arena Stage credits include All the Way and Destiny of Desire. She has also coached voice and dialects at Ford’s Theatre (The Guard), Round House (NSFW, Night Alive) and Signature Theatre (The Flick). Teaching credits include Shakespeare & Company, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, University of Mississippi, Virginia Commonwealth University, Syracuse University and Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. She currently teaches at the University of Maryland.

GEOFF JOSSELSON

New York Casting

previous Arena Stage credits include Disgraced, All the Way, Oliver!, The Blood Quilt, King Hedley II, Fiddler on the Roof, The Shoplifters, Camp David and The Velocity of Autumn. Broadway and Off-Broadway productions include The Velocity of Autumn; Southern Comfort; Yank!; Enter Laughing; Pretty Filthy; John and Jen, Himself and Nora; and Altar Boyz. Also productions for Actors Theatre of Louisville, Barrington Stage Company, Bay Street Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Cleveland Play House, Denver Center, Marriott Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theatre, San Francisco Symphony, Sharon Playhouse and the York Theatre Company. In addition to his independent casting office, Geoff teaches master classes around the country and is on faculty at CAP21. www.geoffjosselson.com

CHRISTI B. SPANN

Stage Manager

returns to Arena after serving as Stage Manager for Love in Afghanistan, and ASM on Smokey Joe’s Café; Good People; My Fair Lady; You, Nero; and Ah, Wilderness! Other D.C. credits include The Bard’s Broadway and Merry Wives of Windsor with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Christi spent 12 seasons on the stage management staff at the Denver Center Theatre Company, and four summer seasons with The Great River Shakespeare Festival.

KRISTEN MARY HARRIS

Assistant Stage Manager

is thrilled to be part of this production at Arena Stage. Favorite Arena Stage credits include Disgraced, The Blood Quilt, Fiddler on the Roof, Mother Courage and Her Children, Red, The Normal Heart and Oklahoma! (Helen Hayes Award). Additional D.C. credits include Road Show, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon, and the world premieres of Kid Victory and Crossing (Signature Theatre) and A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre). Kristen holds a B.F.A. in theater production from the University of Arizona.