Sponsored by: Leslie and Stephen Jerome

REGIONAL PREMIERE

BSC presents the South Coast Repertory production of:

JOAN: A NEW PLAY ABOUT JOAN RIVERS

JOAN is presented with permission from Mills Entertainment, LLC
in association with
Sheboygan Productions, LLC.

By DANIEL GOLDSTEIN
Directed by DAVID IVERS
Script Supervisor & Executive Producer LARRY AMOROS
Executive Producer MELISSA RIVERS
Starring TESSA AUBERJONOIS, ANDREW BORBA, ELINOR GUNN, and ZACHARY PRINCE

JULY 31–AUG 17 | BOYD-QUINSON STAGE | 30 UNION STREET, DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD

Go behind the curtain with the queen of stand-up comedy, Joan Rivers. Daniel Goldstein’s new play imagines the legendary comic reliving her life story in the only way possible: with laughs from beginning to end. Discover the pioneer who conquered a man’s world, the mother of all-time punchlines, and the woman who had it all, lost it all, and did it all. This no-holds-barred look at the life of a true legend makes its regional premiere.

Tessa Auberjonois

as Joan/Mrs. Molinsky

TESSA AUBERJONOIS (Joan/Mrs. Molinsky) BSC: Debut. Select Theater: Joan, Appropriate, Little Foxes, The Roommate, Mr. Wolf, Absurd Person Singular, Becky Shaw, Crimes of the Heart, Lobby Hero, Hold Please, Everett Beekin, etc. (South Coast Rep); Eight Nights, Macbeth (Antaeus); Bones (Kirk Douglas), Lady Windermere’s Fan, Rivals, Country Wife (Shakespeare Theatre); Heartbreak House (Hartford Stage), Hay Fever (Westport Playhouse), Midsummer (Yale Rep), How to Fight Loneliness, Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespearean); Cripple of Inishmaan (Wilma), Uncommon Women (Lucille Lortel), Trainspotting (Player’s). Select film and television: Birth, Monsters, The Affair, Modern Family, How I Met Your Father, Shameless, ER. Numbers, Law & Order, SVU, Boston Legal, General Hospital, etc.. Awards: Ovation, Lunt-Fontanne, Oliver Thorndike. MFA Yale.

Andrew Borba

as Edgar/Dr. Molinsky/Johnny Carson/Others

ANDREW BORBA (Edgar/Dr. Molinsky/Johnny Carson/Others) BSC: Debut. Theater: JOAN, Sight Unseen, In The Next Room, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Lovers & Executioners (South Coast Rep.); Hamlet, Great Expectations, Othello, Two Gents, Arcadia, Pentecost, Cymbeline, (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Richard III (St. Louis Shakespeare), Closer (Berkeley Rep.), Private Lives, The Constant Wife (Pasadena Playhouse); Uncle Vanya (Antaeus), Pericles, The Countess (The Globe Theaters). Film and television: Unstoppable, Interstellar, Straight Outta Compton, Taken 3, Charlie Wilson’s War, 9 Lives, recurring or guest star over 30 TV shows. Former Artistic Director, Chautauqua Theater Company.
MFA NYU. Proud AEA, SAG, SDC member.

Elinor Gunn

as Melissa Rivers/Young Joan

ELINOR GUNN (Melissa/Young Joan) BSC: Debut. Theater: Joan (South Coast Repertory), The Angel Next Door (North Coast Repertory, Laguna Playhouse), Arms and The Man, Explorer’s Club (Jewel Theatre); The Tempest, Cymbeline (Antaeus); Skylight, Sugar Daddies, A Christmas Carol (ACT Seattle); Twelfth Night, King Lear (Seattle Shakespeare Company). Film and television: Paradise, 9-1-1, The Dropout, Ratched. BA Washington State University. @elinor_gunn

Zachary Prince

as Jimmy/Blake/Harold/Chet/Others

ZACHARY PRINCE (Jimmy/Blake/Harold/Chet/Others) BSC: Company. Broadway: Mother Play, Honeymoon in Vegas, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, and Baby It’s You. Off Broadway: The Last Five Years (Second Stage). International: An American in Paris (Adam) at Théâtre du Châtelet. National Tour: Jersey Boys (Frankie Valli). Regional: Joan (South Coast Rep), A Transparent Musical (Center Theatre Group), Grand Horizons (Asolo Rep), The Glass Menagerie (Pioneer Theatre), Ragtime (Bay Street Theatre), and Into The Woods (Kansas City Rep, dir: Moisés Kaufman). Television: FBI: Most Wanted (S6 premiere). BFA Carnegie Mellon. www.zacharyprince.com @zachyprince

Joan Deeper Look: “Icons Only”

How does a legend become a Legend? And how do you honor their legacy while introducing them to a whole new audience? Come hear Artistic Director Alan Paul and Playwright Daniel Goldstein break down how Joan became JOAN.

(Pictured above) Various photographs of Tessa Auberjonois, Andrew Borba, Elinor Gunn, and Zachary Prince. Photos by Scott Smeltzer.