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PRESENTS
THE TONY AWARD® WINNERS
A STAGED READING SERIES OF SIX OUTSTANDING PLAYS
THAT HAVE BEEN AWARDED BROADWAY'S HIGHEST HONOR,
THE TONY AWARD® FOR BEST PLAY
©American Theatre Wing, Inc.™
Barry Heins
ITC Artistic Director & Series Producer
"Art"
By YASMINA REZA
Translated by
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
Directed by
CHRISTINA CARLISI
June 11, 2022
1:30 PM PT
Presented for a live audience
at North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library
and livestreamed on
BroadwayOnDemand.com
Free
STARRING
(in order of appearance)
Marc ..... OLIVER MUIRHEAD
Serge ..... BARRY HEINS
Yvan ..... PAUL PERRI
SAXOPHONE PERFORMED BY
NICHOLAS CASILLAS
Setting: The Paris apartments of Serge, Marc, and Yvan
RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes, no intermission.
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Actors are appearing through an Agreement between Interact Theatre Company and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
"Art" is presented by special arrangement with Dramatist Play Service, Inc., New York.
Produced on Broadway by David Pugh, Sean Connery and Joan Cullman, March 1, 1998.
Special Thanks To
Los Angeles Public Library
Diane Olivo-Posner,
Principal Librarian/Associate Director
Brian Cunningham, Senior Librarian - Studio City
Kelli Lowers, Senior Librarian - North Hollywood
Teri Markson
Ann Bowman
Kevin Awakuni
Meredith McGowan
Melisa McElliot
Vu Le
The Library Foundation, for helping the
Exploration & Creativity Dept. manage the L.A. Made Funds
Actors' Equity Association: Cecilia Adams, Christina Keating, Alison Harma
BroadwayOnDemand.com: Lauren Kardos, Bryan White, Caleb Blakeman,
Adam Shaff, Daniel Jimenez
Amanda Carlin
Kristen Egermeier
Colin Thomas Jennings
Broadway Licensing: Colleen McCormack, Jeffery Keilholtz, Kasey Kopp
Concord Theatricals: Zach Kaufer
American Theatre Wing: Jenny Gorelick, Operations Manager at The Tony Awards
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles: Ben Donenberg, Producing Artistic Director
Tracy Lilienfield, C.S.A.
Artist Engagement Services provided by
University Resident Theatre Association: Tony Hagopian, Terry LaCasse
ITC Board of Directors
Barry Heins, President
Anthony Wofford, Vice-President
Carol Doehring, Treasurer
Kristen Egermeier, Secretary
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Barry and Tracy Heins
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Supporters
Annie Abbott
Diane Adair and Peter McDonald
Rob Adler
Nancy Boykin
Eve Brenner
Rob Brownstein
David Bryant
Catherine Butterfield
Marcy Capoferri
Amanda Carlin and Fred Sanders
Philip Carlin
Christina Carlisi
Carrie Ceryes
Els Collins
Julie Cobb-Cooper
Larry Corsa
Linnea Dakin
Emily Deschanel
Christine Estabrook
Jeffrey Chernin and Peter Nardi
Haile D'Alan
Stephanie Erb and Arthur Hanket
Don Fischer
Dave Florek
Rick Friesen and Stephanie Satie
Rebecca Garcia
Dennis Gersten
Jon Goldberg
Amy and Allan Goldfarb
Colin Thomas Jennings
Jerome Jourquin
Matthew Hanchey
Leslie Hicks and Andrew Hill Newman
Andy and Leslie Heins
Kelsey Heins
Joan Henehan
Elizabeth and Christopher Herron
Kelly Hogan
John Hugo
Marlene Jensen
Jerome Jourquin
Marta F. Kauffman
Maurine Kornfeld
Paul Lazarus
Michael Menjivar
Jeff Meshel
Lynne Metty
Oliver Muirhead
Bruce A. North
Susan Norwitch
Mary O'Malley
Cynthia Paskos
Deborah Pearl
Tracy Powell
Stacy Ray
Roslyn Reno
Geoff Rich
Drs. Bibiana Jin Reiser and Ed Shackeroff
Rob Shapiro
Nathaniel Seymour
Alison Shanks
The Shabaik Trust
Harris Shore
Joel Swetow
Tamika Simpkins
Marc Valera
Robert Weiner
Alexandra Wright
Robert Ziegler
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Cast
Creative Team
Christina Carlisi
Barry Heins
Yasmina Reza
Christopher Hampton
About Interact
"Together they form, in my view, the very best acting ensemble to be seen currently in Los Angeles."
– Cynthia Citron, Santa Monica Daily Press
"A company of hard-hitting professionals, with a rare combination of heart and expertise."
– NoHo News
"Since its inception in 1990, Interact Theatre Company has become known as one of the most exciting theatrical hamlets in the urban forest."
– F. Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times
HISTORY
In January of 1989, actor and director Barry Heins invited fifteen friends – all experienced stage actors homesick for the New York theatrical community – to a weekly play reading group held in a vacant apartment in Sherman Oaks. Before long, a pool of forty actors was involved in readings that consisted of everything from classic plays to new plays and screenplays. The quality of the work attracted other theatre professionals eager to collaborate. Directors came to hear plays, as well as playwrights and screenwriters who arranged to hear these talented actors breathe life into their new scripts. Ten months later, the group became the exclusive tenants of Theatre Exchange in North Hollywood, and Interact was born. On May 1, 1992, the company formally incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit theater.
Interact’s loyal and supportive audience has followed the company to various stages and venues in the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, and Downtown LA, enjoying more than forty full-scale productions of plays and musicals since its founding. Interact also presents high-quality free or low-cost community programming, such as its lauded summer arts education program for underserved youth, hundreds of workshops, fundraisers and special events, and, to date, over a thousand public play readings.
AWARDS
ITC has received 95 performance and production awards (168 nominations), including Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Ovation, Stage Raw, Garland, LA Weekly, Telly, and NAACP Awards.
Meet the Company
Oliver Muirhead
OLIVER MUIRHEAD was born in London and educated at Edinburgh University. He has appeared in many films including AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME, NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS, FUN WITH DICK AND JANE, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, LIKE CRAZY. He has worked on television in SEINFELD, FRIENDS, MAD MEN, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, and many others; most recently as the director of a freak show in CSI: VEGAS. For Interact - certainly not a freak show - he has directed the award-winning production of OTHER PEOPLES MONEY, as well as plays in the Interact series for CLAAFI at UCLA and for the Pulitzer and Tony Award series at Los Angeles Public Library, including ANNA CHRISTIE, LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, THE DEVILS DISCIPLE, and PRIVATE LIVES. He hopes you use your library card regularly and will consider donating used copies of plays to the Amelia Earhart branch of the Los Angeles Public Library in North Hollywood for their collection, a great resource supporting the LA theater community.
Barry Heins
Barry Heins was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Upon graduation from The Juilliard School (BFA, Drama), he toured forty-five states with five plays as a member of The Acting Company, including Michael Langham's production of "Twelfth Night" and Alan Schneider's 25th Anniversary production of "Waiting for Godot." Broadway: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" starring Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, and the Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Good" starring Alan Howard. Off-Broadway: "An Enemy of the People" starring Roy Dotrice (Roundabout Theatre), "The Boys Next Door" (Lambs Theatre), "On the Verge" (John Houseman Theatre), "Ten by Tennessee" (Lucille Lortel Theatre), and "Spring Awakening" (NYSF/Public Theatre). Favorite film and TV roles: "Baby Boom," "Fear of a Black Hat," and "Grace and Frankie." Favorite regional theater roles: Ben in "The Sunshine Boys" with Eddie Bracken and Lou Jacobi, and Norman in "And a Nightingale Sang" with John Slattery. Los Angeles: Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" at The Ford Theater (Drama-Logue Best Actor) and Interact's productions of "Other People's Money" (Pico Playhouse) and the West Coast premiere of the Mark Rylance & Louis Jenkins comedy "Nice Fish." In addition to his work as a voiceover actor, Heins has taught voice and speech at the professional actor training programs of NYU Tisch School of the Arts/Playwright's Horizons Theater School, SUNY Purchase College, and at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NYC). Heins produced ITC's "The Pulitzer Prize Winners: 10 Plays from 10 Decades" for the Los Angeles Public Library, directing "You Can't Take It With You" and "The Great White Hope." He recently produced and directed ITC's first forays into short films, "Faultless" and "Just Another Birthday in Bedlam," receiving numerous indie film festival laurels, including Gold at the 2022 Telly Awards and Best Indie Filmmaker at Top Shorts Film Festival.
Paul Perri
Paul Perri (Yvan) recently played Trent Lott in the film Vice (starring Christian Bale and directed by Andrew McKay). In his long career, he has played Dylan Thomas, Adolph Hitler, Karl Marx, Beethoven, and Mark Twain. He made his Broadway debut in The Bacchae with Irene Pappas and also appeared on Broadway in A View From The Bridge, Macbeth, and Burn This (replacing John Malkovitch). Paul has been in dozens of film and TV shows including The Insider, Manhunter, Hellraiser IV, Demolition Man, Cracker, Rizzoli and Isles, Prison Break, Three Rivers, Grey’s Anatomy, and ER. He has many Off-Broadway and LA theatre roles to his credit and is a proud member of Parson’s Nose Theatre. He is also very proud of his wife, Michele Miner, and his complicated children, Jake and Justine. He is a graduate of the Juilliard Drama Division and teaches Acting at AMDA.
Christina Carlisi
Christine is thrilled to be a part of this prestigious Tony Award-winning play series for Interact Theatre Company and the Los Angeles Public Library. Although Tina has been acting and/or dancing her entire adult life, directing is a new and exciting venture for her. She has directed for the Road theater company… HAPPENSTANCE by Craig Pospisil, TURBULENCE by William Mastrosimone, and BURST by Rachel Bublitz. Last year Tina assisted Greg T. Daniel in the Road’s production of THIS BITTER EARTH, and is currently assisting Director Michael Garces on the critically acclaimed production of Bernardo Cubria’s, THE PLAY YOU WANT, also at The Road.
She produced Interact Theater Company’s production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD, which received the LADCC award for best production of the year. A multi-award-winning actress, Christina has acted in dozens of films and television shows, and an equal amount of theater productions. She was awarded the 2018 best solo show of the year, for her portrayal of legendary modern dancer Martha Graham in MARTHA. And recently received a Telly Award for best comedy of 2021 for the virtual series, THE VIRTUAL END. See full list of credits on ImdbPro.
Barry Heins
See Cast bio.
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist, based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes, produced worldwide and translated into 35 languages. She has written seven plays (CONVERSATIONS AFTER A BURIAL, THE PASSAGE OF WINTER, "ART," THE UNEXPECTED MAN, LIFE X 3, A SPANISH PLAY, GOD OF CARNAGE, HOW YOU TALK THE GAME) and 6 novels ("Hammerklavier," "Une Desolation (Desolation)," "Adam Haberberg," "Dans la Luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer," "Nulle Part" and "L'Aube, le Soir ou la Nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night)"). Films include: "Le Pique-Nique de Lulu Kreutz," directed by Didier Martiny and "Chicas," written and directed by the author.
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton’s plays and musicals have so far garnered four Tony Awards, three Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; prizes for his film and television work include an Oscar, two BAFTAs, a Writers' Guild of America Award, the Prix Italia, a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood Screenwriter of the Year, and The Collateral Award at the Venice Film Festival for Best Literary Adaptation. Original plays: APPOMATTOX, THE TALKING CURE, WHITE CHAMELEON, TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD, TREATS, SAVAGES, THE PHILANTHROPIST, TOTAL ECLIPSE, and WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE MY MOTHER? Adaptations from novels: YOUTH WITHOUT GOD (Horváth), EMBERS (Márai), and LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES (Laclos). Musicals: STEPHEN WARD, DRACULA: THE MUSICAL, and SUNSET BOULEVARD. Libretti: APPTOMATTOX, THE TRIAL, and WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (all for Philip Glass).
Translations include plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Molière, Horváth, Yasmina Reza, and Florian Zeller. Film includes: "Ali and Nino," "A Dangerous Method," "Chéri," "Atonement," "The Quiet American," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Good Father," "The Honorary Consul," "Total Eclipse," "Mary Reilly," "Tales From The Vienna Woods," and "A Doll’s House." He wrote and directed "Imagining Argentina," "The Secret Agent," and "Carrington." Television includes: "The Thirteenth Tale," "The Ginger Tree," "Hôtel Du Lac," "The History Man," and "Able’s Will."
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