Eleanor

By MARK ST. GERMAIN
Starring Tony Award-winner HARRIET HARRIS
Directed by HENRY STRAM

Virtual Performance
Streaming September 17–19

In Eleanor, BSC Associate Artist and playwright Mark St. Germain brings to life Eleanor Roosevelt, the most influential First Lady the world has ever seen. From her “Ugly Duckling” upbringing to her unorthodox marriage to Franklin, Eleanor puts her controversial life, loves and passions on the stage. Tony Award-winning actress Harriet Harris returns to the role after her stellar virtual reading with BSC last fall.

The performance runs 90 minutes with no intermission.

The performance will be available to stream an unlimited amount of times on your personal BSC account, beginning 12:01am ET on Friday, September 17, through 11:59pm ET on Sunday, September 19.

Streaming Tickets

REVIEWS

“Brilliant and emotionally resonant”
—The Wall Street Journal

“a bravura solo performance”
—The Boston Globe

“A beautifully crafted, exquisitely structured play…With Harriet Harris in a breath-taking title-role performance”
—The Berkshire Eagle

“Eleanor is the best sort of history, at once edifying and entertaining…An absorbing, thoughtful portrait”
—Albany Times Union

“Extraordinary. That’s the only word for it…Eleanor is a triumph, all the way.”
—Berkshire Bright Focus

“simply enchanting”
—Broadway World

“excellent, introspective and consistently compelling”
—Off Script with Dan Dwyer

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

HARRIET HARRIS* (Eleanor Roosevelt) BSC: The Royal Family of Broadway, Sweeney Todd. Broadway: It Shoulda Been You, Cinderella, Cry-Baby, Present Laughter, Old Acquaintance, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony and Drama Desk Awards), The Man Who Came to Dinner. Off Broadway: Me and My Girl (City Center Encores), Judgement Day, The Low Road, The Roads to Home, Little Me (City Center Encores), Standing on Ceremony, Yeast Nation, Jeffrey (Drama Desk nomination), Bella, Belle of Byelorussia (Drama Desk nomination). Film: Baby, Phantom Thread, Love is Strange, Memento, Nurse Betty, Addams Family Values. TV: American Horror Story, Hollywood, Ratched, Atlantic Crossing, Felicia Tillman on Desperate Housewives, Bebe Glazer on Frasier.
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CREATIVES

MARK ST. GERMAIN (Playwright) Associate Artist. BSC: Gertrude and Claudius (2019), Typhoid Mary (2018), Camping With Henry and Tom (2016—Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards), Dancing Lessons (2014), Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah (2013), Dr. Ruth, All the Way (2012), The Best of Enemies (2011), Freud’s Last Session (2009/2010), The Collyer Brothers/Period Piece (2008), The God Committee (2004) and Ears on A Beatle (2003). The Best of Enemies received its world premiere on BSC’s Boyd-Quinson Stage in 2011 and became the theatre’s best-sold play of all time. Mark wrote Freud’s Last Session, which became Barrington Stage Company’s longest-running play and moved Off Broadway where it played for two years. Other plays include Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap, Relativity, George Washington’s Teeth and Wednesday’s Child. His latest, DAD, was seen this summer at the Great Barrington Public Theater. With John Markus, Mark wrote the musical comedy The Fabulous Lipitones, the musicals The Gifts of the Magi and Johnny Pye with Randy Courts. He co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Brothers film Duma and co-produced the documentary My Dog, An Unconditional Love Story. Mark’s book, WALKING EVIL — How Man’s Best Friend Became My Worst Enemy will be available in August at Amazon. He is member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild East. Mark is also a Founding Board Member of the Barrington Stage Company.

HENRY STRAM† (Director) is an actor who has appeared on Broadway in Network, Junk, The Elephant Man (and at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London), Inherit the Wind, The Crucible (2002) and Titanic. Recent Off Broadway: The Headlands (LCT3); Judgment Day and The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory); Posterity (Atlantic); Fly By Night (Playwrights Horizons); Antony and Cleopatra (Public and RSC); The Illusion (Signature). Film: Ben is Back, Irrational Man, Cradle Will Rock, The Grey Zone. TV: The Gilded Age, The Good Fight, White Collar, Smash, Law & Order. Henry is the recipient of an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence. He is a graduate of Juilliard and is thrilled to be working with his brilliant classmate and beloved friend Harriet Harris on this project.

BRIAN PRATHER (Scenic Designer) Associate Artist. BSC: Into the Woods; Time Flies and Other Comedies; The Glass Menagerie; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Typhoid Mary; 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: Daniel’s Husband, Widowers’ Houses, 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, Virginia Rep., Broad Stage, Mercury Theatre, Delaware Theatre Co., Shakespeare on the Sound, Capitol Rep. Regional Emmy nominee, Jeff Award and multiple BTCA Award winner. Resident Designer at TheaterWorks Hartford. brianprather.com

ALEJO VIETTI (Costume Designer) BSC: The Royal Family of Broadway, Sweet Charity, Follies, The Human Comedy, Travels with My Discontent, Guys & Dolls, Presto Change-O. An Argentine native, he immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1990s. He has designed for Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as for Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Radio City Rockettes, NYC Center Encores!, Atlantic Theatre Company, NYC Opera, Primary Stages, The Irish Rep, MCC and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among other New York companies. He has also extensively designed for regional theatres across the U.S., commercial projects, operas, ballets and for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He is an Olivier and Drama Desk nominee and the recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.

PHILIP S. ROSENBERG (Lighting Designer) BSC: Tribes, Much Ado About Nothing, See How They Run, Sweeney Todd. Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, The Elephant Man, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and It’s Only a Play. Regional: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, The McCarter Theatre, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage Company, TACT, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Two River Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse and Westport Country Playhouse.

EDDY MINEISHI (Sound Designer) BSC: The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein (Sound Designer), Audio Department Supervisor—2020 season, A1—2019 season. Regional: Assistant Sound Designer for Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Sound Designer for …Cuckoo’s Nest at Flint Repertory Theatre. Education: Associate Sound Designer for The Secret Garden, Associate Sound Designer for 42nd Street, Sound Designer for Yeast Nation, Sound Designer for Love & Information, Associate Sound Designer for Guys and Dolls, Sound Designer for Candide, Sound Designer/A1 for Into the Woods. MFA Sound Design & Technology, CCM—University of Cincinnati.

MARY SCHILLING-MARTIN (Wig Designer) BSC: Fall Springs, Time Flies and Other Comedies, The Royal Family of Broadway. She is the former Wig Master for La Jolla Playhouse, Marriott Theater in Lincolnshire, Cleveland Play House and Arizona Theatre Company. Her regional credits include: Berkshire Theatre Group, Northern Stage, Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, The Goodman Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company. Mary along with her daughter, Caitie, is co-owner of Wigs and Whiskers.

RENÉE LUTZ* (Production Stage Manager) Associate Artist. Over 55 productions for BSC including 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 credits: 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 include: 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.

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE, Nathan Francis, Rebecca Weiss (Casting) (C.S.A.) Associate Artist. Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 19 years. 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 (Berkshire Press Representative) (16^th Season) Associate Artist. Charlie joined the BSC family in 2005 and has represented over 130 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today and American Theatre Magazine. His many PR credits include the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse (1999–2004), 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 In The Wings Productions. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation. Last year he was appointed Director of Alumni Relations for his alma mater, Moore Catholic High School.

THE PRESS ROOM (National Press Representatives) Broadway: Hamilton, The Book of Mormon and upcoming productions of The Brothers Size, Chasing Rainbows, Born for This, Paradise Square and Working Girl: The Musical. Recent Broadway credits: The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Farinelli and the King. Off Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Beyond Babel. Other clients include: Vineyard Theatre, The Wooster Group, Shakespeare’s Globe, Theatre Row, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Hunter Theater Project, NY Classical Theatre, Southern California’s 3-D Theatricals, the award-winning web series “Indoor Boys,” actor/pianist Hershey Felder, Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata for the Shaw Festival, and Miami New Drama’s world premiere musical, A Wonderful World.