Faith Healer

FREE ARTISTIC EVENTS

Aftershows

FREE Discussion with purchase of a ticket for that night’s performance.

Stick around after the show for a discussion of the play, its themes and its relation to our community; featuring select cast and creative team. Purchase your tickets by clicking the desired date below.

Faith Healer — August 10 at 7:30pm  |  August 17 at 7:30pm

Deeper Looks

FREE DISCUSSION — “Flying Solo”

Dive deeper into the process of solo performance with a panel of guests who know it well. This moderated discussion on the challenges and opportunities of putting one person on stage features Faith Healer director Julianne Boyd, actor Mark H. Dold and The Happiest Man on Earth playwright Mark St. Germain.

Faith Healer — August 5 at 11am, St. Germain Stage

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Beyond the Play: A Reading List Inspired by Faith Healer

Recommended by and on display at

Berkshire Athenaeum

One Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield, MA 

413.499.9480 | pittsfieldlibrary.org

HOURS • Mon–Thurs: 9am–9pm | Thurs–Fri: 9am–5pm | Sat: 10am–5pm

Below are select works from a vast curated collection! From our friends at the library:

“For Faith Healer, we chose a variety of materials associated with spirituality,
healing, suicide, grief, memory and perception, and the mind-body connection.”

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

by Cole Arthur Riley

Arthur Riley boldly explores some of the most urgent questions of life and faith: How can spirituality not silence the body, but instead allow it to come alive? How do we honor, lament, and heal from the stories we inherit? How can we find peace in a world overtaken with dislocation, noise, and unrest?

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of “the secrets” — the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds.

Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

Helping her father dispense otherworldly folk remedies to heal the sick in their village, Ada pursues a forbidden affair that transforms her lover and the dangerous source of her powers.

Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova

The Harvard-trained neuroscientist and best-selling author of Still Alice presents an exploration of the intricacies of human memory that distinguishes between normal and concerning memory loss while explaining the profound roles of sleep, stress, and other contributing influences.

The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine by Anne Harrington

Citing the roles of stress and a positive attitude in influencing the survival chances of seriously ill patients, this history of mind-body healing provides coverage of such topics as psychoanalysis, the placebo effect, and meditation to consider the validity of ancient Eastern techniques.

CAST

	MARK H. DOLD* (Teddy) BSC: Associate Artist, returning for his nineteenth season and twentieth show, including Breaking the Code, Harry Clarke and Waiting for Godot. Additionally, Mark has appeared on/off Broadway, and performed in regional theaters from coast to coast; last seen in The Inheritance in Boston. He has guest-starred on network television, tv pilots, web series and various films. He is the recipient of Elliot Norton, Berkshire Theatre Critics, Connecticut Critics Circle, Off Broadway Alliance and San Diego Critics awards. In 2018, he was named BroadwayWorld Berkshires Best Actor and in 2020 he was named Performer of the Decade. BFA Boston University, MFA Yale Drama. Member of The Actors Center and a volunteer at MSKCC. MarkHDold.com @mhdold
	GRETCHEN EGOLF* (Grace) BSC: Associate Artist, Much Ado About Nothing, Private Lives, Going to St. Ives, A Picasso. Theater: Suddenly Last Summer (English Theater Frankfurt), The Constant Wife (Denver Center), The Autumn Garden (Off West End), Twelfth Night, Candida, As You Like It (Pittsburgh Public); A Streetcar Named Desire (Guthrie), Ring Round the Moon (Lincoln Center), Jackie (Broadway and West End), Arcadia (ACT), Betrayal (Huntington), Titus Andronicus (Off Broadway), Design For Living (Shakespeare Theater). Film and television: The Son, Hijack, State of the Union, Pennyworth, Silent Witness, Doctor Who, Elementary, The Good Wife, Journeyman, The Namesake, The Talented Mr. Ripley. Training: Juilliard.
	CHRISTOPHER INNVAR* (Frank Hardy) BSC: Associate Artist, Waiting for Godot; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Much Ado About Nothing; The Crucible; Private Lives; Cyrano De Bergerac; The Importance of Being Earnest; Ring Round the Moon. Directing at BSC: The Whipping Man, Camping With Henry and Tom, The Other Place, Shining City. Theater: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Snow Geese, Les Misérables, 110 In The Shade, The Threepenny Opera (Broadway); Floyd Collins, Gun-Shy (Playwright’s Horizons); King Lear (NYSF), The Boys in the Band (Transport Group), Dance of Death (Classic Stage), Harper Regan (Atlantic), Big Love (Signature), Maria Arndt, The Royal Family (Steppenwolf); Wintertime (Guthrie), The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Way of the World (Shakespeare Theatre Co), Macbeth (Berkeley Rep). christopherinnvar.com @innvarc

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CREATIVE TEAM

BRIAN FRIEL (1929–2015) (Playwright), largely considered modern Ireland’s leading playwright, was born to a schoolmaster and a postmistress. After working as a teacher in Derry for ten years, he married Anne Morrison and moved to Donegal to begin writing in earnest. His first significant theatrical success was Philadelphia, Here I Come, which debuted to rave reviews at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1964. He went on to pen The Loves of Cass McGuire, The Mundy Scheme, The Freedom of the City, Living Quarters, Faith Healer, an adaptation of Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons, Dancing at Lughnasa (winner of three Tony Awards, a New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Play and an Olivier Award for Best Play) and Wonderful Tennessee. In 1980 Mr. Friel joined Stephen Rea in founding the Field Day Theatre Company, where they first staged the Ewart-Biggs Peace Prize-winning Translations, an adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters. The Company’s productions explored the middle ground between the secular culture of Northern Ireland and the more traditional rural world. Famously reclusive, he has stated, “I am married, have five children, live in the country, smoke too much, fish a bit, read a lot, worry a lot, get involved in sporadic causes and invariably regret the involvement, and hope that between now and my death I will have acquired a religion, a philosophy, a sense of life that will make the end less frightening than it appears to me at this moment.”

JULIANNE BOYD (Director) BSC Founding Artistic Director, 1995–2022. She has directed many productions at BSC, including the critically acclaimed musicals West Side Story, Company and Follies. In 1997 she directed BSC’s smash hit production of Cabaret, which won six Boston Theater Critics Awards and transferred to the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge. She also directed the world premieres of Mark St. Germain’s Dancing Lessons, The Best of Enemies and Dr. Ruth, All the Way, as well as Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son, the latter two having moved to Off Broadway and Broadway respectively. Boyd oversaw the development of Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which moved to Broadway and won two Tony Awards; the 2013 critically acclaimed revival On the Town, which also transferred to Broadway; and the world premiere of Freud’s Last Session, which moved Off Broadway. Boyd conceived and directed the Broadway musical Eubie! Based on the music of Eubie Blake and starring Gregory Hines; it garnered three Tony nominations. She also co- conceived and directed (with Joan Micklin Silver) the award-winning Off Broadway musical revue A…My Name Is Alice and its sequel A…My Name Is Still Alice. From 1992–1998 Boyd served as President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the national labor union representing professional directors and choreographers in the U.S. She and her husband Norman, a New York dentist, have three grown children. 

LUCIANA STECCONI (Scenic Designer) BSC: Waiting for Godot. Recent designs include: The Art of Burning (Huntington Theatre and Hartford Stage), Antonio’s Song (Goodman Theatre), Macbeth (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Anna in the Tropics (Bay Street Theatre), Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express (Milwaukee Rep), Witch (Huntington Theatre Company), John Proctor is the Villain (Studio Theatre), A Wind in the Door (Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences). She has designed for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. She is an Associate Professor in Scenic Design at Emerson College. Luciana holds an MFA in design from Brandeis University. lucianastecconi.com

JEN CAPRIO (Costume Designer) BSC: Associate Artist, Breaking the Code, On the Town, Lost in Yonkers, Butler, …Spelling Bee, Taking Steps, Into the Woods, Boca. Broadway: Falsettos, …Spelling Bee. National/International: Falsettos, Joseph…, The Lion (West End/US Tour), …Spelling Bee (US Tours). New York theater: Encores!, Audible/Minetta Lane, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, Primary Stages, Cherry Lane, LaMama, ETC and others. Regional: Over 200 productions for LORT, Cruise Ship Entertainment and Opera. TV: Falsettos (PBS) Sesame Street (seasons 47–54), The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (Seasons 1–2), Manhunt (Apple TV+) and Tiny Time Travel (PBS). 2019, 2020, & 2021 Nomination, 2020 Daytime Emmy Winner for Sesame Street. jencaprio.com @jencapriocostumedesign

DAVID LANDER (Lighting Designer) BSC: Associate Artist, Waiting For Godot, A Little Night Music, Sister Sorry, Boca, Who Could Ask for Anything More?, Harry Clarke, Fall Springs, Gertrude and Claudius, West Side Story. Broadway: Torch Song with Michael Urie, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams (Drama Desk Award; Tony and Outer Critics Nominations), 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Tony and Outer Critics nominations), I Am My Own Wife (Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations), among others. International Theatre and Opera: Dublin, Delhi, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, among others.

FABIAN OBISPO (Sound Designer) BSC: ABCD, American Underground, The Chinese Lady (Berkie Award). Off Broadway: Out of Time, Sea Wall/A Life, Oedipus El Rey, Teenage Dick, The Chinese Lady (Lucille Lortel Nomination). Regional: Angels in America, Agamemnon and His Daughters (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes nomination), Black Starline (Goodman Theatre), Black No More (Guthrie Theater), Bina’s Six Apples (Alliance Theater), Tiger Style! (South Coast Repertory), The Life of Galileo (Cleveland Play House), Julius Caesar (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Ah, Wilderness! (Cincinnati Playhouse), A Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Film and television: Vancouver (Original Score), 20 Years of Asian American Playwriting (Original Music, PBS Documentary).

RENÉE LUTZ* (Production Stage Manager) BSC: Associate Artist, 60+ BSC productions over 27 years: Fall Springs, Into the Woods, West Side Story, Royal Family of Broadway, Gaslight, Company, Ragtime, American Son, Tribes, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Cabaret, Follies, etc. Select Theater: GNIT (dir. Oliver Butler), Skin of Our Teeth (dir. Arin Arbus), Pericles (dir. Trevor Nunn), Merchant of Venice (dir. Darko Tresnjak — national tour & Royal Shakespeare Company), Hamlet (dir. Darko Tresnjak), ART, NY Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature, Classic Stage, Vienna Festwochen, BTF, Yale, Coconut Grove. Best credit and longest run: her husband, actor Gordon Stanley.

MCCORKLE CASTING: Pat McCorkle, CSA; Rebecca Weiss, CSA (Casting) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 21 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 (19^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) Broadway: Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, Prima Facie. Off Broadway: Blue Man Group, Death Drop, The Fears. Upcoming: Female Troubles, Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical, A Wonderful World. Recent credits: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, Paradise Square, The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Farinelli and the King. Clients include: The Acting Company, Drama Book Shop, Hershey Felder, Hunter Theater Project, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, New York Classical Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Shakespeare’s Globe, Theatre Row, Vineyard Theatre, The Wooster Group.

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