WORLD PREMIERE PLAY

Sister Sorry

By ALEC WILKINSON
Directed by JOE CALARCO

AUGUST 13–AUGUST 29

Indoors at the Boyd-Quinson Stage,
30 Union Street, Pittsfield, MA

In the early 1990s in New York City, a conceptual artist invites the public to confess their crimes anonymously — via an answering machine. A wide variety of messages pour in, confessing a range of misdeeds, from running a traffic light to infidelity. One caller captures her attention with a stunning and unbelievable confession, which quickly unravels into a suspenseful and thrilling adventure. Based on a true story, Sister Sorry is inspired by Alec Wilkinson’s “The Confession”, originally published in The New Yorker.

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Author! Author!

Monday, August 16 at 3PM ET

Boyd-Quinson Stage
30 Union Street, Pittsfield

Join us for a FREE discussion with Sister Sorry playwright Alec Wilkinson and Director Joe Calarco.

REVIEWS

“one of the best [two-person plays] to come to my attention in recent years”
—The Wall Street Journal

“vigorously played, brilliantly staged…a propulsive get-go that never lets go”
—The Berkshire Eagle

“so superbly acted and so keenly directed…captivating (almost spellbinding) and provocative”
—Off Script with Dan Dwyer

“A thought-provoking experience that keeps us clutching our seats and gasping at its surprises”
—Berkshire Bright Focus

“Sister Story is an impressive theatrical experience. Do not miss it.”
—Berkshire On Stage

“will resonate with the viewer long after seeing it in a theater, perhaps just as the true story would not let go of the playwright.”
—Splash Magazine

“Fascinating…riveting”
—Pioneer Valley Radio

“Totally absorbing and gripping”
—Rex Recommends

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

CHRISTOPHER SEARS* (Jack Flash) BSC: Lord of the Flies. Christopher Sears is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up working in his parents’ theatre. After earning his BFA from Rutgers University, he moved to New York where he has since worked with some amazing theatre artists. Favorite productions include Stupid Fu**ing Bird (Pearl Theatre), Gently Down the Stream (Public Theater) and The Harvest (Lincoln Center). Christopher has recorded three albums of music available at christophersears.bandcamp.com. His paintings can be found on his Instagram: @christopherpeoplepainter. Christopher is so happy to be doing a play again — and of all places — BSC is where he got his Equity card in Lord of the Flies! Thank you Mom and Dad always. Thank you Ino.

JENNIFER VAN DYCK* (Sister Sorry) is delighted to be back in the Berkshires. Berkshire Theatre Group: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Petrified Forest; Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Broadway: Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Secret Rapture. Off Broadway: The Confession of Lily Dare (Outer Circle Critics Award), Cleopatra, Judith of Bethulia, The Divine Sister, The Third Story (all collaborations with Charles Busch and Carl Andress); Nassim, Orson’s Shadow (Barrow St. Theatricals); Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, Keen Company, Second Stage, MCC. Regional: The Guthrie (Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie), La Jolla, Trinity Rep, The Old Globe, Huntington. Film/Television: Law & Order: Organized Crime (Judge Lee), Blindspot, Madam Secretary, Bull, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Royal Pains, Elementary, Person of Interest, Too Big to Fail, Michael Clayton, Across the Universe.

CREATIVES

ALEC WILKINSON (Playwright) is the author of 10 books, including The Ice Balloon, The Protest Singer, Big Sugar and A Violent Act. His awards include a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lyndhurst Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He published his first piece in The New Yorker in 1980. Before that, he was a police officer in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, and before that he was a rock and roll musician. Sister Sorry is his first play.

JOE CALARCO† (Director) Associate Artist. BSC: Into the Woods; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Ragtime; Kiss Me, Kate; Breaking the Code; Romance in Hard Times; The Burnt Part Boys; The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (book writer); The Memory Show. New York: Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center. Other regional: Signature Theatre, The Old Globe, The Kennedy Center and many more. He has been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, the Jeff Award, the Evening Standard Award and won a Lucille Lortel Award, two Barrymore Awards and four Helen Hayes Awards. His published works as a playwright include Walter Cronkite is Dead, In the Absence of Spring, Shakespeare’s R&J and Winter Break.

DEBRA KIM SIVIGNY (Costume Designer) Recent credits include costumes for Once at Hangar Theatre, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Round House Theatre/Arkansas Rep), Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes (Signature Theatre) and scenery for Having Our Say (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), Kill Move Paradise (Rep Stage). She is the creator of Hello, My Name Is… (The Welders), an immersive installation about Korean adoptees. She received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for Forgotten Kingdoms at Rorschach Theatre and is a five-time nominee. She is on the faculty at George Mason University.

DAVID LANDER (Lighting Designer) Associate Artist. BSC: Boca, Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin, Harry Clarke, Fall Springs, Gertrude and Claudius, West Side Story. Broadway: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Torch Song with Michael Urie and Mercedes Rhuel, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, The Lyons with Linda Lavin, Master Class with Tyne Daly, 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. Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Vineyard Theatre, among others. Regional: Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, among others. International Theatre and Opera: Dublin, Delhi, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, among others.

DAVID BUDRIES (Sound Designer) is excited to be working on his first production at BSC. His regional theatre credits include designs at Hartford Stage Company; Baltimore Center Stage; Dallas Theatre Center; Ford’s Theatre; Houston’s Alley Theatre; Alliance Theatre; South Coast Repertory; McCarter Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse; San Diego Rep; Portland Stage Company, Maine; Portland Center Stage, Oregon; Arena Stage; Yale Repertory Theatre. His New York stage credits include 12 works on and Off Broadway. Mr. Budries has taught Sound Design at the Yale School of Drama for 38 years and is an independent music/radio producer, composer and musician.

AMBER JOHNSON* (Production Stage Manager) Touring credits: Hamilton (Philip Tour), Waitress (1^st National), Motown: The Musical (1^st & 2^nd National), The Phantom of the Opera (North American Tour), The Book of Mormon (2^nd National) and Jersey Boys (Chicago Tour). Chicago credits include West Side Story, Mamma Mia!, Oklahoma! (Paramount Theater), South Pacific (Drury Lane), Seussical the Musical, Shrek the Musical, Gypsy (Chicago Shakespeare), Jitney, Angels in America Parts 1 & 2, Spunk, Comedy of Errors and Three Tall Women (Court Theatre). Other regional credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival and Antelope Valley Ballet. Amber graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BFA in Theatre. As always, Boomer Sooner!

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD; PAT MCCORKLE (Casting) (C.S.A.) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 19 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 (Berkshire Press Representative/Associate Artist) (17th Season) 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.