All of Me

FREE LOBBY CHAT 

Friday, September 23 at 3:00PM — The Rhoda and Morris Levitt Lobby at the Wolfson Theatre Center: 122 North St., Pittsfield

Coffee, tea and great conversation! Join us for insights and lively discussions on our exciting, provocative productions this summer and fall. These chats are free, fun and informative. Although free, reservations must be booked in advance because space is limited. All of Me with playwright Laura Winters. Register now!

BERKSHIRE RESIDENTS NIGHTS

Wednesday, September 28 — 7:00PM

A 25% discount will be offered for all Berkshire Residents. Call the Box Office to redeem this discount: 413-236-8888.

All purchases must be made at the box office or over the phone. Limit two per patron per performance. You must show a valid form of ID or proof of residency at Will Call the night of the performance. This offer cannot be combined with any other discount. Subject to availability.

SOCIALLY DISTANCED SEATING NIGHT

Thursday, September 29 — 7:00PM — Click here to buy

CAST

	MAGGIE BOFILL* (Elena) is an actor and playwright. Founding member of LAByrinth Theater Company, member Ensemble Studio Theater (EST) and member of Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artists Writing Group (WAW). Recent: Wrote and featured in PBS Short Cuban American Gothic. STAGE: The Formula (World Premiere) and Alonso in The Tempest at Santa Cruz Shakespeare; Bella in The Sound Inside at TheaterWorks Hartford, Dir. Rob Ruggiero; Nora in A Doll’s House, Part 2 at The Longwharf Theater, Dir. Will Davis; Armida in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles at St. Louis Rep., Dir: Rebecca Martinez; Blanca in The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues, Writer Michael John Garcés. TV/FILM: High Town, The Path, Smash, Law & Order: SVU. IG: @maggiebofillita
	JACK FELLOWS* (Moose) is delighted to return to his home state of Massachusetts to work at BSC! He has appeared Off Broadway in Abingdon’s production of STET and across the US performing in One Man Two Guvnors at the St. Louis Rep, Bus Stop at Baltimore Center Stage, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the White Heron, Lombardi at the Riverside Theatre, Biloxi Blues at Kansas City’s ‘New Theatre,’ as Romeo, Caliban and John Proctor in their respective plays with Wolfbane Productions in Virginia and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and other plays at Connecticut Rep. As a playwright, his play The Last Poet on Mars was produced at the Wild Project Theatre in Manhattan. Oh, and you might see him holding some doors open in HBO’s The Gilded Age.
	MADISON FERRIS* (Lucy) made history as the first wheelchair user to play a lead role on Broadway, starring as “Laura Wingfield” in Sam Gold’s The Glass Menagerie with Sally Field. Madison’s television credits include “Dayna Mason” in the Amazon thriller series, Panic, as well as Law & Order: SVU and the upcoming Showtime limited series Three Women.
	DANNY J. GOMEZ* (Alfonso) is a professional actor with credits on New Amsterdam (NBC), All Rise (OWN) and the upcoming comedy-thriller Martinez, Margaritas, and Murder!. He has worked on national campaigns for Facebook, Target, Zappos and more, and in 2019, he was awarded the Christopher Reeve Acting Scholarship. After a near-death mountain biking accident left Danny paralyzed from the waist down, he committed his life to advocacy for representation for disabled actors in Hollywood.
	LEAH HOCKING* (Connie) Broadway: The Last Ship, Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, All Shook Up, Dance of the Vampires, The Wild Party, Jekyll & Hyde, Grease, Guys and Dolls. Off Broadway: The Most Happy Fella at New York City Opera, The Mad Ones, The Thing About Men, Penelope, Enchanted April, Forbidden Broadway. Leah received a Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress as Mrs. Wilkinson in the National Tour of Billy Elliot, and a Kevin Kline nomination for Ado Annie in Oklahoma! at The MUNY. Tons of Regional. Film and Television: Law & Order, Whoopi, Across the Universe, Bernard and Huey, Safe, The Pilgrim, many original cast recordings. Proudest Achievement: Daughter, Mabel L’Ecuyer.
	ALEXANDRA SEAL* (Jackie) is thrilled to be working at BSC. Theatre: Fornicated from the Beatles (A.R.T.); Black Snow and nonplay (The New Ensemble; Mikhael Tara Garver, dir), Chekhov’s Chicks (Manhattan Theater Source). TV: Escape at Dannemora, The Endgame, Herotica, Falling Water. Film: Wait it Out (director/story by/actor/producer and Winner Best of Festival / Quarantine Film Festival 2020), This New York Story, Chinatown Rain, Roger and the Therapeutic Therapist. Alex can next be seen in the upcoming limited series Retreat on FX. Theatre BA, Ithaca College; National Theater Institute; Moscow Art Theatre. Thanks to Jennifer and Kathy at Encompass Arts. @MsAlexandraSeal

CREATIVES

LAURA WINTERS (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter working in NYC and LA. Former acknowledgement for All of Me: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, Relentless Award Honorable Mention, Drama League Next Stage Residency, Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist. Her other plays include Coronation (finalist for National Playwrights Conference), Gonzo (Burman New Play Award Semi-Finalist, Rough Draft Festival), Emerson Loses Her “Miand” (Semi-Finalist in The Bechdel Test Festival, Dixon Place) and a full-length children’s play, Space Mission #5379: Saving Rachel, Nevada (world premiere East Valley Children’s Theatre, winner of Arizona Theatre Excellence Award for Best Original Script). BA Northwestern University. @LauraWinters12

ASHLEY BROOKE MONROE† (Director) is a New York-based theatre director whose primary focus is on developing new plays and musicals. She currently works as the Resident Director of the National Tour of Hamilton. Broadway: Indecent, Fun Home, The Glass Menagerie. Directing: Julius Caesar (CSC), Death Cruise (Access Theater), Tommy’s Girls (Primary Stages), The Goree All-Girl String Band (Theater Row), Orlando (Fordham). Ashley has developed work with New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Classic Stage Company, Musical Theater Factory, The Culture Project, The Flea, Soho Rep, IRT, New York Theatre Barn and Special Sauce Company. Originally from Austin, Ashley holds a BFA in Dramaturgy from the University of Oklahoma.

BRIAN PRATHER (Scenic Design) Associate Artist. BSC: Andy Warhol in Iran; Boca; Eleanor; Into the Woods; The Glass Menagerie; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Ragtime; American Son; Breaking the Code; Dr. Ruth, All the Way; Freud’s Last Session; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Burnt Part Boys and many others. Recent Off Broadway: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Daniel’s Husband, A Christmas Carol, Becoming Dr. Ruth, The Memory Show, Freud’s Last Session, Nymph Errant, The Burnt Part Boys. International: Chung-mu Hall (South Korea). Regional and other: Alley Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Cincinnati Playhouse, Broad Stage, Mercury Theatre, Delaware Theatre Co., Shakespeare on the Sound, Capitol Rep. Regional Emmy nominee, Jeff Award and BTCA Award winner. Resident Designer at TheaterWorks Hartford. brianprather.com

SARAH LEFEBER (Costume Designer) has been creating art that reflects her world in many media for as long as she can remember. Since earning her MFA in Costume Design at UCLA in 2006, she has worked as a costume designer for theatre and film, as a college professor, photographer @distracted_by_art, illustrator, jewelry designer, and private fine arts instructor at Sarah Marie’s Sewing School. She is most attracted to projects that call for inventive approaches and collaborative creation, so she was honored to be invited to join fellow disabled artists in creating work that highlights the humor and poignancy of some of her own experiences.

MIRIAM NILOFA CROWE (Lighting Designer) is a New York-based lighting designer for theatre, dance and live music. Recently in NY: Kennedy (film version and Off Broadway); Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi + The Public); Trial by Jury (Bronx Opera); Sanctuary (Lindsey Hanson Dance); Stop-Motion, Mirrors and Charlie’s Waiting (Parity Productions); Hurricane Party (The Collective NY); SeagullMachine and home/sick (The Assembly); This is Modern Art and Platonov (Blessed Unrest); Anna (Dusan Tynek); PS 160 (Gabrielle Mertz); 6 Characters… (Theodora Skipitares); 2Hymnvb (Anneke Hansen); The Penalty (The Apothetae); Medea (Bryan Davidson Blue); Symphony for the Dance Floor (BAM). She has an MFA from Yale School of Drama and is an Adjunct at Lehman College and NYU Tisch Drama. wingspace.com/miriam

MATT OTTO (Sound Designer) is a composer, sound designer, professor and adoptee based in New York City. In New York, he has designed productions for: Audible, Pipeline Theatre Company, Colt Coeur, Tectonic Theatre Project, The Barrow Group, Cherry Lane, The Atlantic Conservatory, New Saloon and many more. Regionally, he has designed for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company, Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, GALA Hispanic, Imagination Stage, Brown MFA/Trinity Rep, Yale Rep, Theatre Alaska and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Matt received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, his BFA from Boston University and is a member of USA 829. MattOtto.co

CAITLIN CAFIERO (Accessibility Consultant & Assistant Sound Designer) is a disabled accessibility consultant and sound designer (and grad student, and educator, and…). Previous designs: Gloria; Mary Jane; Silent Sky; In the Next Room. Previous accessibility consulting and professional development: Summit Performance Indy; American Lives Theatre. They are a graduate of Earlham College and a current student at Syracuse University. Caitlin is so excited to work on a play that involves so many of her personal and professional interests: intersectional disability representation, AAC use, Sir Mix-a-Lot. Thank you Fawzia for sending the TikTok that led to an interview and to my theatre family for their support!

JASON BROUILLARD* (Production Stage Manager) BSC: Anna in the Tropics, Andy Warhol in Iran, A Crossing. Broadway: Big Fish, Spider-Man, The Best Man, Bonnie & Clyde, Baby It’s You, West Side Story, Jersey Boys, LoveMusik, Hairspray, Frog and Toad, Dance of The Vampires, The Civil War. Tours include: Dear Evan Hansen, An Evening with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin, John Lithgow: Stories by Heart, Ragtime. Off Broadway: Sakina’s Restaurant, If I Forget, Trip of Love, Satchmo At The Waldorf, The Cocoanuts. Carnegie Hall: Anyone Can Whistle. Most recently worked on the new musical, Afterwords, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre.

RENÉE LUTZ* (Production Stage Manager) Associate Artist. Over 55 productions for BSC including Ain’t Misbehavin’, Eleanor, Fall Springs, Into the Woods, West Side Story, The Royal Family of Broadway, Gaslight, Company, Ragtime, American Son, Tribes, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Cabaret, Follies, etc. Recent: GNIT (directed by Oliver Butler), Skin of Our Teeth (directed by Arin Arbus) and Pericles (directed by Trevor Nunn; Theatre for a New Audience). Other credits: Merchant of Venice (directed by Darko Tresnjak — national tour and the Royal Shakespeare Company), Hamlet (directed by Darko; Hartford Stage), ART, New York Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature, Classic Stage, Vienna Festwochen, BTF, Yale Rep, Coconut Grove, etc. Her very best credit and longest run is her husband, actor Gordon Stanley. A thousand “thank you’s” to Julie for a wonderful journey.

QUINN O’CONNOR* (Assistant Stage Manager) is a disabled stage manager and producer who has worked at various institutions across the country, including The Public Theater, East West Players, Long Beach Opera, IAMA Theatre Company, Opera UCLA and A Noise Within. Quinn works at the intersection of theatre and disability access, both in audience experience and broader representation by consulting with regional theatres and approaching access through a lens of disability justice. She holds a B.A. in Theatre and Disability Studies, with a concentration in stage management and producing from the University of California, Los Angeles. The future is accessible. Instagram: @quinnfelisa

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD: PAT MCCORKLE, CSA; Rebecca Weiss (Casting) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 20 years. Pat McCorkle is pleased to be an Associate Artist at BSC. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On the Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; Tribes; Our Town (Barrow Street); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, St. George, Sesame Street, Hack, Californication, Max Bickford, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, etc. mccorklecasting.com

CHARLIE SIEDENBURG (Berkshires Press Representative) (Associate Artist, 18^th Season) joined the BSC family in 2005 and has represented over 150 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Associated Press and American Theatre Magazine. His many PR credits include the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre, Surflight Theatre and Two River Theater Company. He serves as Press Rep for Wagner College Theatre, The Minty Awards, Ghostlight Productions and Forestburgh Playhouse. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation. In 2021, he received a Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Special Award for Exceptional Support of Arts Journalism in the Berkshires.

THE PRESS ROOM (National Press Representatives) represents the Broadway productions of Hamilton, The Book of Mormon and Paradise Square, as well as the Vineyard Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Wooster Group, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Building for the Arts, Hunter Theater Project, Miami New Drama, Paper Mill Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, 3-D Theatricals, NY Classical Theatre, The Drama Book Shop and the Antonyo Awards. Recent: Black No More; The Waverly Gallery; Gloria: A Life, Three Tall Women; Farinelli and the King; Beyond Babel; Waterwell’s 7 Minutes; Out of the Box Theatrical’s The Last Five Years. Upcoming: Florida Georgia Line’s May We All; Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical; Born for This; Mister Miss America; Sidney.

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What is AAC?

AAC stands for alternative and augmentative communication, and it refers to any method of communicating that isn’t spoken language. Although things like sign languages, writing, and drawing technically qualify as AAC, usually it’s used to refer to communication that’s aided with a tool or device.

AAC History

Below is a very broad timeline of some AAC developments. It’s very important to recognize that the first commercially reproduced AAC method is not the first AAC use. As long as there have been nonspeaking disabled people, there have been efforts to communicate with them. Whether those efforts are from the disabled person themself, their caregivers, friends, or family, they did exist.

AAC in All of Me

The two main characters in All of Me, Lucy and Alfonso, both use text-tospeech AAC. In the world of the show, they have iPads where they type into one of the many AAC apps that exist. Once they’re ready to say their thought, they hit a button that reads it in a digitized voice. Their devices would have some kind of external speaker to make them louder than the average iPad is capable of. Alfonso, whose family is well-off, has a digitized voice that sounds more like a human speaking voice. Lucy, whose family is not, has a default voice that sounds more robotic.