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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
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BARRY HEINS
ITC Artistic Director & Series Producer
THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
by JASON MILLER
Directed by
KENNETH MESEROLL
April 9, 2022
Presented exclusively on
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Featuring
(in order of appearance)
Tom Daley ..... ANDY RIDINGS
George Sikowsky ..... TATE ELLINGTON
James Daley ..... NELSON FRANKLIN
Phil Romano ..... JOHN LAVELLE
Coach ..... STEVE VINOVICH
Sports Announcer ..... BARRY HEINS
The setting is 1972 at the Coach's house, somewhere in the Lackawanna Valley.
Running time is approximately 110 minutes
No intermission
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"That Championship Season" is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Special Thanks To
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Diane Olivo-Posner,
Principal Librarian/Associate Director
Brian Cunningham,
Amelia Earhart Regional Library Adult Librarian
Kelli Lowers
Teri Markson
Ann Bowman
Kevin Awakuni
Meredith McGowan
Melisa McElliot
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The Library Foundation, for helping the
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Actors' Equity Association: Cecilia Adams, Christina Keating, Alison Harma
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Adam Shaff, Daniel Jimenez
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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Terry Lilienfield
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Colin McKay
Michael Skloff
Anthony Wofford
Joel Zwick
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
Jeffrey Chernin and Peter Nardi
Haile D'Alan
Christine Estabrook
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
Jason Miller
Kenneth Meseroll
Barry Heins
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 94 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
Andy Ridings
A New Jersey native, Andy spent close to a decade working in TV, Film and Theater in New York City before moving to Los Angeles in 2013. Favorite credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Other Two, 30 Rock, The Great Indoors, and The Resident. He can also be seen in the new Starz series, Shining Vale, alongside Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear. Although he received a BFA from Syracuse University, his real creative education began long before, on the “sets” of the many horror/action movies he cast his four brothers in as children. Such classics as Zombie Chicken Face and Mud-Brother! Andy is thrilled to offer his portrayal of Tom in this production, and would like to thank Interact Theatre Company and the rest of the cast for their wonderful spirit of collaboration.
Tate Ellington
Tate Ellington most recently starred in the NBC drama series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector. He has also recurred on All Rise and Kenan. He appeared in a major recurring role on Showtime’s critically acclaimed show, Shameless, opposite Emmy Rossum and William H. Macy, as well as one of the leads in the independent film, The Endless.
Previously, Tate was seen in both Universal’s Straight Outta Compton as well as the sequel to the blockbuster horror film Sinister. Other film credits include the indie comedy Wanderland as well as the the foreign horror film Belzebuth. Other TV credits include lead roles on NBC's The Brave and ABC's Quantico, two major recurring roles on the hit comedy series The Mindy Project as well as on AMC’s The Walking Dead, and numerous guest spots including The Affair, Big Bang Theory, The Blacklist, The Resident, Parenthood, Castle, and The Good Wife.
Nelson Franklin
Nelson Franklin is a native Angelino who began his acting career when he was mistakenly placed in his high school's drama class. He quickly fell in love, and trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York, through NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Nelson works primarily in television, appearing in shows such as: The Office, New Girl, Blackish, Arrested Development, I'm Sorry, Party Down, Gaslit, Traffic Light, The Millers, Abby's, and VEEP, for which he won a SAG Award for best comedy ensemble. Some of Nelson's film work includes: Being the Ricardos, Captain Marvel, Scott Pilgrim VS the World, Argo, JOBS, Gemini, and A Futile and Stupid Gesture.
John Lavelle
Originally from New York, John spent much of his career appearing on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regionally, and at The Royal Shakespeare Company. He is the author of several plays including Inhalation (Max Lerner Award, O’Neill Finalist), The Very Best People (IAMA NWF) Sinner’s Laundry (IAMA), You Didn’t Die (LA Together Festival), Gertrude (Max Lerner Award), After the Fall before The Storm (Sam French Finalist), Celestial Events (IAMA) and his work has appeared in the ABC Discovers Talent Showcase. John received a Drama Desk Award for his performance in The Royale at The Lincoln Center Theatre and he is a member of IAMA Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He has appeared on TV and Film in numerous roles, most notably portraying Roy Reed in Ava DuVernay’s Academy Award nominated film Selma. As a voice artist, John has worked for Disney, Netflix, and Dreamworks. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and teaches at Zak Barnett Studios and the Stella Adler Art of Acting Studio. He performs regularly with his Improv team Some Kinda Monster at The Upright Citizens Brigade.
Steve Vinovich
STEVE VINOVICH has been doing this acting thing for a while. He’s been truly blessed. Has actually made a living as an actor. Raised in Peoria, Illinois, attended the University of Illinois and UCLA, before receiving a full scholarship to the Juilliard School which brought him to NY. BROADWAY: Waitress, All the Way, Loose Ends, Lost in Yonkers, The Magic Show, The Robber Bridegroom, The Grand Tour, The Secret Rapture, Love Letters. Off-Broadway: Old Jews Telling Jokes. National Tour: The Dinner Party REGIONAL: Over 100 plays and musicals. Recently the American Shakespeare Festival: Funny Thing Happened Forum, Westport Playhouse: Diary of Anne Frank, Pittsburgh Public: Ben Franklin 1776. Others- Pasadena Playhouse - The Foreigner, The Little Foxes. Laguna Playhouse - Art, The Price. Reprise: Kiss Me Kate, Strike up the Band, Babes in Arms. Pacific Resident Theater: Awake and Sing, Golden Boy, All My Sons. Stratford: 12th Night with Lynn Redgrave. Public: Midsummer Night's Dream. NCT: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, How I Learned to Drive, Inherit
the Wind. FILM: Worth, The Intern, Shirley, The Santa Clause, Awakenings,
Mannequin, Puffin in The Swan Princess. TV: about 120 guest spots and two series - recently Godfather of Harlem and such iconic shows as Three’s Company, LA Law, Hill Street Blues, Roseanne, Star Trek, ER, Everybody Loves Raymond, Law and Order, Matlock, Touched by an Angel, Malcolm in the Middle, and yes, even Hannah Montana. COMMERCIALS-over 200. TRAINING: Juilliard School under John Houseman,
Strasberg Institute, Charles Nelson Reilly, Larry Moss. AWARDS: three LA DramaLogue Awards. www.stevevinovich.com
Jason Miller
Jason Miller won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Outer Critics’ Circle Award for his play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. He has also authored three one-act plays, CIRCUS LADY, LOU GEHRIG DID NOT DIE OF CANCER, and IT’S A SIN TO TELL A LIE. His play BARRYMORE’S GHOST premiered at the Empty Space in Seattle, Washington. He won an Emmy and the prestigious Christopher Award for his teleplay "Mary Thomas: A Mother's Courage," the story of basketball player Isaiah Thomas’ mother. Jason was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Father Karras in "The Exorcist." Other notable film credits include "F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood," for which he received an Emmy nomination, and Arthur Miller in "Marilyn: The Untold Story." Jason’s acting credits include Edmund in LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT with Helen Hayes at the Hartke Theatre in Washington, D.C., and Henry Drummond in INHERIT THE WIND with Malachy McCourt. INHERIT THE WIND premiered in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the Lackawanna County Courthouse and then moved to Philadelphia’s City Hall, where it enjoyed a critically acclaimed six-month run, winning the distinction of being the longest-running drama in Philadelphia in a quarter-century. Jason, a Pennsylvania Gold Medal recipient, is the Artistic Director of the Scranton Public Theatre, its Pennsylvania Summer Theatre Festival, and the Public Theatre of Pennsylvania. His full-length heritage play, NOBODY HEARS A BROKEN DRUM, was chosen as the millennium play for the State of Pennsylvania.
Kenneth Meseroll
Ken is grateful to be reunited with That Championship Season, having played James in a college production at UW Madison. In Los Angeles: Directed Skylight by David Hare at Fremont Centre Theatre, Gary Richards’ The Root at The Ark, Loyalties and What Happened Was at Alliance Theatre Co., Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with special permission from Mr.Albee, Waiting At The Malibu Diner at PRT’s co-op, Othellox3 and Mlle. Colombe at the Classical Theatre Lab, All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten at The Acme, The Volunteer at West Coast Ensemble, and in New York, My Fifteen Minutes Off-Off B’Way. As an actor Ken appeared On, Off, and Off Off B’Way and in major regional theaters across the country in plays as diverse as the American premieres of David Hare’s Plenty, Orton’s Funeral Games, The Flight of the Earls, and Mamet’s Oleanna, (all in New York). Regionally: Bonjour la Bonjour, St. Joan, Oleanna (two more times), Three Sisters, Design For Living, Romeo and Juliet, Bent, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Merchant of Venice, The Cherry Orchard, Death of a Salesman, Ardele, The Cocktail Party, Star Spangled Girl, Butterflies Are Free, and Twelfth Night, among others. TV: Recurring roles on the current HBO series, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers, Without A Trace, Station 19, Days Of Our Lives, and All My Children. Roles on S.W.A.T., Seal Team, Hawaii Five-O, Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Medium, Cold Case, Shark, Criminal Minds, Crossing Jordan, The Practice, ER, West Wing, LAX, Numbers, Judging Amy, X-Files, The Cosby Show. Films: Lansky, Carman the Champion, and Walt Whitman, a Kosmos for PBS. Ken was the voice of Seneca in The Holy Roman Empire, and Derek Wildstar in the anime classic, Star Blazers. Ken was a long time member of The Classical Theatre Lab here in L.A. as well as the chair of their Directors Wing.
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: Ford Theater (Best Actor Drama-Logue Award for "Much Ado About Nothing"), Interact’s productions of "Other People’s Money" at the Pico Playhouse, and the West Coast premiere of the Mark Rylance & Louis Jenkins comedy "Nice Fish" at The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles.
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 and 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." During the pandemic, he produced and directed two short films for ITC, Just Another Birthday in Bedlam, and Faultless, tallying multiple top honors at film festivals across the country, including Best Indie Filmmaker from Top Shorts Film Festival and a Telly Award.
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