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The Drawer Boy

John Mahoney
in The Drawer Boy
(photo courtesy Paper Mill Playhouse)

a play by
Michael Healey

starring
JOHN MAHONEY

directed by
Anna D. Shapiro

"A new classic."


Louis Cancelmi		John Mahoney		Paul Vincent O'Connor


	Edwin C. Owens		John Lloyd Young

Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, NJ

February 23rd - April 3, 2005

	Cast and Crew Bios

	JOHN MAHONEY (Morgan) Thirty plays with Steppenwolf, including The Dresser, I Never Sang for My Father, The Drawer Boy (also Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Man Who Came to Dinner (also London), Orphans (also New York). Other theatre: The Weir (Geffen Theatre, L.A.), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Irish Rep., also Galway), Uncle Vanya (Goodman), After the Fall (Nat. Jewish Theatre). Broadway: The House of Blue Leaves (Tony^® and Clarence Derwent awards). Films include Moonstruck, Say Anything, Suspect, Tin Men, In the Line of Fire. TV includes "Frasier" (two Golden Globe and Emmy nominations).


	LOUIS CANCELMI (Miles) Broadway and West End: Vincent in Brixton, dir. Richard Eyre. Regional: Until We Find Each Other, dir. Anna Shapiro (Steppenwolf), Mother of Us All and 5 Movements for People and Sound (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Other theatre credits: Night Sings Its Songs (U.S. premiere), The Nest, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, The Vortex, Sincerity Forever (Flea Theater). Film: Stay, Pursesnatcher, The Hitchhiking Game, New Guy, Daugther of Arabia, Eloge de Rien. Television: "Third Watch," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." Trained at Yale University, Acting International in Paris, and the School at Steppenwolf in Chicago.


	PAUL VINCENT O'CONNOR (Angus) is a longtime regional theatre actor, weaned on summer stock and a member of the company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for sixteen years. His postgraduate training includes Mt. Holyoke College, Naropa Institute, and The Drama Studio London-at-Berkeley where he was the Sir John Gielgud fellow. He has appeared in numerous primetime television shows and movies of the week. Major films include movies as disparate as Seabiscuit and Octopus II: River of Fear. This past summer he appeared in David Edgar's political drama, Continental Divide at the LaJolla Playhouse and he recently closed a production of The Foreigner in Los Angeles. He will be seen in the upcoming film Shackles, with D.L. Hughley.


	EDWIN C. OWENS (Morgan/Angus, u/s) Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Doctor Baugh, u/s Big Daddy), Fortune's Fool (Trembinsky, u/s for Alan Bates and Frank Langella), Death of a Salesman (with Brian Dennehy), Caesar and Cleopatra, The Changing Room, That Championship Season, Conduct Unbecoming, and the national company of An Inspector Calls. Regional credits include performances at the Guthrie Theatre, the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, and Pittsburgh Public Theatre. Film: Regarding Henry, Blood Brothers.


	JOHN LLOYD YOUNG (Miles, u/s -- performed 3/25/05) Paper Mill: Danny Saunders in The Chosen. Pre-Broadway: A Bronx Tale (Calogero) opposite Chazz Palminteri, directed by Michael Greif. Off Broadway: Julia Jordan's Summer of the Swans and Larry O'Keefe's Sarah, Plain & Tall (both directed by Joe Calarco at the Lucille Lortel Theatre); Rinne Groff's The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem (Target Margin); Moritz in Wedekind's Spring Awakening. Regional: McCarter, Kennedy Center, Coconut Grove, William Inge Festival (member, National Advisory Board). Festival Films: The Belligerents, The Roman Soldier. Television: "Law & Order." Graduate: Brown University. www.johnlloydyoung.com


	MICHAEL HEALEY (Author) trained as an actor at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in the mid-eighties. His first play, a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Fringe of Toronto Festival in 1996 and received a Dora Mavor Award as Best New Play. He and collaborator Kate Lynch wrote The Road to Hell, which was produced at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto in 1999. The Drawer Boy opened at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto and won the Dora Award for Best New Play, a Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award, and the Governor General's Literary Award. His next play, Plan B, opened at the Tarragon 2002, winning the Dora for Best New Play. Recent work: Rune Arlidge at the Tarragon and The Innocent Eye Test, a commission for Toronto's Mirvish Productions.


	ANNA D. SHAPIRO (Director) has served as Steppenwolf Theatre's New Plays Lab original director, Resident Director, and is currently an Artistic Associate. Steppenwolf credits: The Drawer Boy, Side Man (also in Ireland, Australia, and Vail, Colorado), Three Days of Rain, and the world premieres of Man from Nebraska, Until We Find Each Other, Purple Heart (also in Galway, Ireland), The Ordinary Yearning of Miriam Buddwing, and The Infidel. Other credits: Iron (Manhattan Theatre Club), A Fair Country (Huntington Theatre Company), The Infidel (Philadelphia Theatre Company) and Edwin Sanchez's Trafficking in Broken Hearts (Atlantic Theatre Company). Yale School of Drama graduate and 1996 Princess Grace Award recipient. She is currently the head of the Graduate Directing Program in Theatre at Northwestern University.


	ALISON FRANCK (Casting Director) has been Resident Casting Director at Paper Mill Playhouse since 2000. She has cast over 20 productions for Paper Mill, including the revival of I'm Not Rappaport, starring Ben Vereen and Judd Hirsch, directed by Daniel Sullivan, which transferred to Broadway. Among the many plays and musicals she has cast in co-productions with Coconut Grove Playhouse: The Chosen starring Theodore Bikel, Romeo and Bernadette and The Dinner Party, directed by John Rando. Recently, at Paper Mill Playhouse: Of Thee I Sing, directed by Tina Landau, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls, Baby and the upcoming productions of The Baker's Wife and Ragtime. Independent film: Broke Even (Best Drama, 2000 New York Independent Film Festival). TV series: Al Franken's "Lateline," "Soul Man" starring Dan Akroyd, and "Talk to Me" starring Kyra Sedgewick. Pilot casting: "Madigan Men" with Gabriel Byrne, and Dreamworks' "The Others" and "Freaks & Geeks" (2000 Emmy for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series).


	TODD ROSENTHAL (Set Designer) Recent regional projects include Man from Nebraska (chosen by Time magazine as one of the top ten productions of 2003) and I Never Sang for My Father, both directed by Anna Shapiro for Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Play About the Baby and A Christmas Carol for The Goodman Theatre, Our Lady of 121st Street for The Alley Theatre, and The Goat for Philadelphia Theatre Company. Current projects include The Guardsman for The Alliance Theatre, The Story for The Goodman Theatre, Intimate Apparel and Red Light Winter for Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and The Goat for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Mr. Rosenthal teaches design at Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.


	JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Design) Broadway: Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV (Tony^® nom.), Good Vibrations, Brooklyn Boy, Take Me Out, Proof, Enchanted April, Golda's Balcony, Sight Unseen, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Judgment at Nuremburg, and revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Inherit the Wind and The Most Happy Fella. Off-Broadway: Much Ado About Nothing and Tartuffe (NYSF at the Delacorte), Dinner With Friends, How I Learned to Drive, The Normal Heart, The Substance of Fire, 10 Unknowns, Far East, Buried Child, and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes awards). Graduate and current faculty Yale School of Drama.


	KEVIN ADAMS (Lighting Designer) Broadway: The Good Body, Take Me Out, John Leguizamo's Sexaholix, A Class Act, Hedda Gabler, Getting and Spending, An Almost Unholy Picture with Kevin Bacon. Steppenwolf Theatre: I Never Sang for My Father, The Drawer Boy, Side Man. Off-Broadway: the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch; new plays by Paula Vogel, Neil Simon and Christopher Durang; and received a Lucille Lortel and an Obie for sustained excellence. Opera: Glimmerglass Opera, Canadian Opera Co., Lincoln Center, Chicago Opera Theatre, Tanglewood Opera, and Disney Hall. Future work: Marc Blitzstein's Regina starring Patti Lupone (Kennedy Center) and The Mines of Sulfur (City Opera).


	ROB MILBURN & MICHAEL BODEEN (Composers, Arrangers and Sound Designers) Broadway credits include music composition and sound for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Speed of Darkness, music for My Thing of Love and sound for A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu, and The Grapes of Wrath. Off-Broadway credits include music and sound for Topdog/Underdog at Steppenwolf Theatre, Houston's Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, and Hartford Stage Company; original music, arrangements, and sound for Beauty at La Jolla Playhouse; sound for Juvenilia at Playwrights Horizons off-Broadway; sound and music design for Time of Your Life at Steppenwolf, Seattle Repertory, and ACT in San Francisco; sound for The Dresser at Steppenwolf; and original music and sound for Antigone at South Coast Rep. They have created music and sound at many of America's resident theaters (often with Chicago's Goodman and Steppenwolf Theatres), the Comedy Theatre in London's West End, The Barbican Center, the National Theatre in Tel Aviv, the Subaru Acting Company in Japan, and festivals in Toronto, Dublin, Galway, Perth, and Sydney.


	GAIL P. LUNA (Production Stage Manager) Recent Broadway credits: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Lena Horne Awards, The Save Venice Fund, and The Best of Broadway. Regionally: The New Jersey State Opera; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and I Love a Piano at the Denver Center; BJ Ward and Stand Up Opera; Debbie Gravitte Holiday Show. Previous Paper Mill credits include: Dinner Party; Carousel; Red, Hot and Blue; Funny Girl; The Sound of Music; Guys and Dolls; She Loves Me; and Harold & Maude: The Musical. Thanks to the best crew around!


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