Program - The American Century Theater

The American Century Theater presents
J.B.
by Archibald MacLeish

About The American Century Theater
The American Century Theater was founded in 1994. We are a professional
nonprofit theater company dedicated to presenting great, important, and
worthy American plays of the twentieth century—what Henry Luce called
“the American Century.”
The company’s mission is one of rediscovery, enlightenment, and perspective,
not nostalgia or preservation. Americans must not lose the extraordinary
vision and wisdom of past playwrights, nor can we afford to surrender the
moorings to our shared cultural heritage.
Our mission is also driven by a conviction that communities need theater,
and theater needs audiences. To those ends, this company is committed to
producing plays that challenge and move all Americans, of all ages, origins,
and points of view. In particular, we strive to create theatrical experiences
that entire families can watch, enjoy, and discuss long afterward.
The American Century Theater
presents
by Archibald MacLeish
September 14–October 6, 2012
Board of Directors
Staff
Chair
Vice-Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Board
Jack Marshall
Paige Gold
Rip Claassen
Brian Crane
Ellen Dempsey
Kate Dorrell
Tom Fuller
Rhonda Hill
Louis George
Wes MacAdam
Ann Marie Plubell
Wendy Kenney
Paige Gold, Gabe Goldberg, Vivian Kallen,
Jack Marshall, Kevin McIntyre
Artistic Director
Managing Director
Steven Scott Mazzola
Lindsey E. Moore
Emily Morrison
Ed Moser
Joli Provost
Ginny Tarris
Director
Rip Claassen
Gunston Theatre Two
2700 South Lang Street, Arlington
Lighting Design
Zachary A. Dalton
Costume Design
Lorraine Slattery
Stage Manager
Kathryn Dooley
A rundown circus tent
somewhere in America at any time
Set Design
Trena Weiss-Null
Sound Design
Ed Moser
Properties Design
Michelle Hitchcock
This program is supported in part by Arlington County through
the Arlington Commission for the Arts and Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division
of Arlington Economic Development; the Virginia Commission for the Arts;
the National Endowment for the Arts; and many generous donors.
There will be one 15-minute intermission.
Please—Turn off cell phones and other distracting devices.
The use of recording equipment and taking of photographs
during the performance are strictly prohibited.
J.B. is presented by special arrangement
with Samuel French, Inc.

Cast
J.B. .......................................................... John Tweel
Sarah ....................................................Julie Roundtree
Mr. Zuss ....................................................Steve Lebens
Nickles ............................................. Bruce Alan Rauscher
Mrs. Adams ................................................ Allison Turkel
Mrs. Botticelli ..........................................Kecia A. Campbell
Mrs. Lesure ........................................... Kathryn Browning
Mrs. Murphy ............................................. Jennifer Brown
Jolly/Girl ......................................................Loren Bray
Miss Mabel/Mary ................................Chanukah Jane Lilburne
David ...................................... Zak Gordon, Jakob Sudberry
Jonathan/Boy .................................................Sam Landa
Rebecca ................................................... Caroline Frias
Ruth .......................................................Kaiya Gordon
First Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/
Police Officer/Firefighter ....................................Joshua Dick
Second Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/
Police Officer/Firefighter ...................... Joshua Aaron Rosenblum
Bildad ..................................................... Robert Heinly
Eliphaz ..................................................... Evan Crump
Zophar ................................................ George Tamerlani
Distant Voice ...............................................John Dooley
Production staff
Director .................................................... Rip Claassen
Stage Manager ...........................................Kathryn Dooley
Assistant Stage Manager ........................... Johanna Schoenborn
Scenic Design ........................................... Trena Weiss-Null
Lighting Design ........................................ Zachary A. Dalton
Master Electrician ........................................Jeffrey D. Porter
Sound Design .................................................. Ed Moser
Costume Design ........................................ Lorraine Slattery
Properties Design ..................................... Michelle Hitchcock
Wardrobe Handler/Child Monitor/Animal Wrangler .......Lindsey E. Moore
Publicist ..................................................Emily Morrison
Photography ...........................Dennis Deloria, Johannes Markus
Program Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Sherman
House Manager .............................................. Joli Provost
Special thanks to—
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Don Barton, meter muse
The Baskir Familyz
Robin Berry, TSNY of Washington DC
Constellation Theatre Company
Paul Hogan
Faction of Fools/Emma Jaster
The Landa Family
Sarah LaRue
Carol Feather Martin and
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Adrian Rooney
J.B. (1958) by Archibald MacLeish
How is J.B. like a passenger pigeon?
Like one of the large, gray, tasty game birds that once were so abundant in
this country that flocks of them literally could blot out the sun, Archibald
MacLeish’s masterpiece is a member of an extinct species, or nearly so. The
species is verse drama, an ancient form that once was dominant in stage
art and is now scorned and forgotten, except when impressive theatrical
fossils and beautiful preserved specimens are on display.
J.B. was like a lone survivor even when it premiered in 1958. The verse
drama had been slowly dying since the seventeenth century, and its
fatal disease was realism. Once William Shakespeare started writing
some of his plays’ comic scenes in prose, the deadly virus was loose: the
Bard recognized that prose was the tool of the realist, while verse was
the method of the romantic, the dream-weaver, the troubadour, and, for
a few more centuries at least, the tragedian.
But by the 1820s, the writing was on the wall as well as the stage. The
French writer Stendhal insisted that prose was the only possible medium
for an effective tragedy. Henrik Ibsen abandoned verse as a medium
after Peer Gynt in 1867, believing that poetry made drama dealing with
contemporary issues less immediate and involving. He wrote:
Verse has been most injurious to the art of drama . . . . It is improbable
that verse will be employed to any extent worth mentioning in the
drama of the immediate future since the aims of the dramatists of the
future are almost certain to be incompatible with it.
The writer of A Doll’s House was largely correct, but this dying species
proved hardier than most. Even in America, where everything is always
modern, talented playwrights periodically employed the power of
verse long after Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died alone in 1914.
There was MacLeish, of course, who was a poet who wrote plays rather
than a playwright who used poetry, and Maxwell Anderson, who had
consistent Broadway success with his plays in the Thirties and Forties
written in blank verse: The Wingless Victory, High Tor, Winterset, Mary of
Scotland, Elizabeth the Queen, Key Largo, and Anne of the Thousand Days.
(Meanwhile, poet T.S. Eliot was holding down the verse drama fort in
England, with plays like The Cocktail Party.) MacLeish’s J.B., appearing in
1958, was a late and vigorous example of the rare breed, as was William

Alfred’s Hogan’s Goat, an Off-Broadway historical drama that was named
the Best Play of the 1965–1966 Season.
Since then, the species has been the victim of deadly predators. TV has
embedded realism in the public’s consciousness so firmly that so-called
reality shows seem more like drama than High Tor, and the use of poetry
on stage has retreated almost solely to musicals, which aren’t exactly
thriving either (the movie variety has pretty much vanished).
Nonetheless, the best of verse drama, when a theater company has the
courage to produce it, is still capable of showing how beautiful and
high flying this exotic species could be in its prime.
Somewhere, Martha is cooing.
—Jack Marshall, Artistic Director
More than half a century after this play was written, society finds itself
coping with the same problems, but on an even larger scale. MacLeish’s
comforters—representing Religion, History, and Science—are still with
us, and still as useless as he depicted them. Like many in our society,
they listen only to themselves and refuse to reach out for common
ground. In truth, the three must be understood in harmony for real
understanding to come.
As long as our leaders refuse to listen to others’ facts and theories,
we are doomed to not understand the world around us. “A scientist, a
clergyman, and a historian walk into a . . . .” Unfortunately, the joke is
on us. Only when viewed in combination can science, faith, and history
inform one another and lead humanity to possible answers. When people
are convinced the End Times are coming, or conversely that there are no
mysteries that science cannot answer, then we have a problem.
MacLeish saw the horrors of the two world wars and wrote in response
to them. I chose to undertake this play because I have seen 9/11, the
Oklahoma bombing, the Family Research Council, Reverend Phelps, and
other horrors committed in the names of the Comforters, and I realize Mr.
MacLeish’s lesson has not been learned.
—Rip Claassen, Director
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Loren Bray (Jolly/Girl) received her BFA in Musical Theatre at Howard
University. She was last seen in a reading of Raisin in the Sun at Bay
Theatre Company.
Jennifer Brown (Mrs. Murphy) Stage credits: Castiza in The Revenger’s
Tragedy (Strawdog Theatre Company), Fand and Morrigan in Between the
Door and the Sea: The Story of Yeats’ Cuchulain (Arc Entertainment Group)
and various roles in Greater Tuna and Maggie in Texanna Rearranges
the Planets and Saves Your Family from the Gates of Hell (North Avenue
Productions). She earned a BA in Theater from Columbia College Chicago.
Kathryn Browning (Mrs. Lesure) works most often as a film actress and
voiceover artist in the New York/mid-Atlantic area. Recent film roles
include network executive Carol Winstead in The Louder the Better and
as Special Justice Helen Rider in Commitment (screened in the Short Film
Corner, Cannes Film Festival). She was formerly producer/director of the
political talk show, Think Tank (PBS). This is her first appearance with The
American Century Theater.
Kecia A. Campbell (Mrs. Botticelli) has been involved in several
productions in the Washington, DC-Baltimore Metro area including:
Technician in Visit to a Small Planet (The American Century Theater);
School Master in The Visit, Carmen in The Balcony, Madame Pace in
Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Salesman in The Motor Show
(Theater J/Theatre Lab Staged Reading Series); Queen Factor in Princess
Problem It’s Time To Wed (Studio Theatre/DC Black Theatre Festival);
Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Vpstart Crow); Elizabeth in
The Old Settler (African Continuum Theatre); and Mrs. Mi Tzu in The Good
Woman of Setzuan (Theatre Lab). Training: Vera Katz, Theatre Lab, and
Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Evan Crump (Eliphaz) has performed with many local companies,
including The American Century Theater, The Kennedy Center,
Washington Shakespeare Company, First Stage, The Keegan Theatre,
Molotov Theatre Group, Georgetown Theatre Company, Chesapeake
Shakespeare Company, and Active Cultures Theater. His theater company,
Unstrung Harpist Productions, has premiered new works in the past three
Fringe Festivals, winning Best Drama for 2010’s Genesis. The only thing
that winds him up as much as acting is Terrapin basketball.

Joshua Dick (First Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/Police Officer/Firefighter)
returns to The American Century Theater after performing in Stage Door
last year. DC area: Flora, the Red Menace, Three Bears, Parfumerie, Don’t
Dress for Dinner, Jack and the Bean-Stalk (1st Stage); Sweeney Todd, The
Visit (Signature Theatre); Spot’s Birthday Party (Adventure Theatre); A Man
of No Importance (The Keegan Theatre); The Music Man (Washington
Savoyards). Film/TV: The Nextnik, Investigation Discovery’s Stolen Voices,
Buried Secrets, Science Channel’s Human Nature Born To Kill. Joshua earned
a BA in Musical Theatre Performance from American University and has
directed for the Capital Fringe Festival and The Theatre Lab. Upcoming:
A webseries sitcom, Confab.
Caroline Frias (Rebecca) is a student at Wakefield High School in
Arlington. She enjoys music, acting, and singing and has studied drama
and dance, including jazz, tap, ballet, and hip hop. She studied dance at
Ballet Nova and acting with Rip Claassen’s summer program. She has also
sung with the Arlington Children’s Chorus. Caroline performed in Where
the Wild Things Are, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Mulan Jr. at Swanson
Middle School.
Kaiya Gordon (Ruth) is making her professional theater debut with
The American Century Theater. This is her fourth show with Rip
Claassen as Director.
Zak Gordon (David) is in his second show with The American Century
Theater, his first having been Babes in Arms. He is currently directing
Rumors for his school, H.B. Woodlawn.
Robert Heinly (Bildad) previously appeared with The American Century
Theater in Ah, Wilderness! Other credits include Biloxi Blues and The Hasty
Heart (Dominion Stage), Christmas Carol and Picasso at the Lapin Agile
(Little Theatre of Alexandria), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Port City
Playhouse), To Kill a Mockingbird (Firebelly Productions), xphiles unrequited
and Shoulder, and The B-Team (Landless Theatre).
Sam Landa (Jonathan/Boy) is a student at George Washington Middle
School. His credits include performances with The Washington Ballet in
The Nutcracker (2009, 2010, 2011), The Great Gatsby (2010, 2011), and Alice
(in Wonderland!) (2012), and with the Royal Danish Ballet in Napoli (2011).
Steve Lebens (Mr. Zuss) has previously been seen at The American
Century Theater in Marathon ’33, Little Murders, The Country Girl, Visit to a
Small Planet, Stage Door, Stalag 17, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?,
An American Century Christmas, Hellzapoppin’, and Drama Under the
Influence. In Washington, he has appeared in numerous productions with
Studio Theatre Secondstage, Signature Theatre, Folger Theatre, American
Ensemble Theater, Scena Theatre, Actors’ Theater of Washington,
Horizons Theatre, Source, Trumpet Vine Theatre, and Interact Theatre.
Regional credits include the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Theater of
the Americas and Teatro Popular in Bogota, Colombia, and
The Karachi Drama Circle in Karachi, Pakistan. Television credits include
Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Steve will appear later this fall in The
Fantasticks (No Rules Theatre) and the web series Influence.
Chanukah Jane Lilburne (Mary/Miss Mabel) was last seen as Helen
Bazoo in Marathon ’33 at The American Century Theater, where she also
appeared in Babes in Arms. Founding member of Turtle Teens (NYC). Film:
SleepTight, My Lovely; Pearly Girl; Dinah; The Christmas Whore; and Women’s
Studies.
Bruce Alan Rauscher (Nickles) has worked with The American Century
Theater (most recently as Patsy in Marathon ’33), Washington Shakespeare
Company, Signature Theatre, and Source Theatre. Favorite roles include:
Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man, Alan Strang in Equus, Clark Storey
in The Second Man, Alan Turing in Breaking the Code (ACT Award for Best
Actor), Edgar in King Lear, Kreton in Visit to a Small Planet, Gary/Roger in
Noises Off, Rev. Hale in The Crucible, Edward III in Edward III and Col. N.P.
Chipman in The Andersonville Trial (Helen Hayes nominee for Best Actor).
He has been honored with a Mary Goldwater Award for acting by The
Theater Lobby. In 2008, he completed a week-long run Off Broadway in
The Keegan Theatre production of Love, Peace and Robbery as part of the
1st Irish Play Festival.
Joshua Aaron Rosenblum (Second Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/Police
Officer/Firefighter) has been seen at The American Century Theater
as “Lusty” in Marathon ’33 and, earlier, in Babes in Arms. Recent credits
include John Darling in Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers (No Rules
Theatre Company) and performances with Synetic Theater, 1st Stage, and
Potomac Theatre Company.
Julie Roundtree (Sarah) is performing for the second time with The
American Century Theater, having appeared as Mary in Native Son. Some
of her other favorite local roles include Anna in Shock/Trauma (Unstrung
Harpist Productions), Froggy in Blackbird (Barrelhouse Theatre Company),
Ophelia in Hamlet (Maryland Shakespeare Festival), Olivia in Twelfth
Night (Wandering Souls), and a Fury in The Oresteia (Constellation Theatre
Company). She a company member with Unstrung Harpist Productions,

Wandering Souls, and Barrelhouse Theatre Company and can be seen next
in a touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a collaborative
project with Wandering Souls and Unstrung Harpist Productions.
Jakob Sudberry (David) is making his first appearance with The
American Century Theater. He has been a student in Teens ’n’ Theatre
Company and was most recently cast as Shepherd Henderson in
Bell, Book and Candle.
George Tamerlani (Zophar) was last seen in the world premiere
production of The Waiter (Out-Side the Box Theatre). Some favorite recent
roles include Perelli in Requiem for a Heavyweight and Dr. Givings in In the
Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). He can be seen in the independent film
The Touchstone (Red Carpet Media) and, shortly, in the western saga Day
of the Gun (One-Eyed Horse Productions).
Allison Turkel (Mrs. Adams) has been a student of The Theatre Lab and
Studio Theatre’s conservatory programs, where she appeared in student
outtake productions including August: Osage County, Death of a Salesman,
Medea, and The Taming of the Shrew. She recently appeared in the 48 Hour
Film Project Real Hipsters of Meridian Hill. A music aficionado, Allison hosts
promotional concerts for independent label musicians in her home.
John Tweel (J.B.) last appeared at The American Century Theater in Visit to
a Small Planet, also directed by Rip Claassen. John was last seen onstage
in the DC Fringe production of R.U.X. (Rockwell’s Universal seXbots), which
won the Audience Pick Award for Best Comedy. Before that, John appeared
in The Tooth of Crime (WSC Avant Bard). Other appearances include Marat/
Sade and A Walk Across the Rooftops (WSC), A Flea in Her Ear and Arabian
Nights (Constellation Theatre Company), The Trial and War of the Worlds
(Scena Theatre), Scenes from the Big Picture (2007 Helen Hayes nomination
for Outstanding Ensemble) and Improbable Frequency (both, Solas Nua),
The Gospel According to Fishman (Signature Theatre), and 1776 (Olney
Theatre Center). John has appeared in the films Wedding Crashers and
Syriana and has been featured on America’s Most Wanted.
Rip Claassen (Director) has directed, produced, and costumed for
The American Century Theater, Natural Theatricals, Howard University,
American University, Bowie State, and other local venues. He has been
a local fixture for many years in the Washington theatre scene, where
most know him as the dramaturge at Backstage Inc., Washington’s
theatre supply store. He has taught theatre and acting at the Institute
for the Arts for Fairfax County Public Schools, Duke Ellington School
of the Arts, and several other local theatre programs. Rip is Artistic
Director of Teens ‘n’ Theatre Company and an artistic associate with
TACT, where he recently directed Visit to a Small Planet and costumed
Little Murders and Marathon ’33.
Zachary A. Dalton (Lighting Design) Design: Stopgap (Field Trip
Theatre), A Doll’s House (2nd Assistant Designer) and The War Boys (both,
Williamstown Theatre Festival), Oedipus El Rey and Bootycandy (both,
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Assistant Designer). Upcoming:
Reckless (Spooky Action Theatre), Dying City (Signature Theatre, Assistant
Designer), Henry V (Folger Theatre, Assistant Designer). Zachary earned
a BFA in Theatre Technology at Longwood University.
www.zacharydalton.com
Kathryn Dooley (Stage Manager) is working on her first production at
The American Century Theater. Recent Stage Manager and Assistant
Stage Manager credits include Hamlecchino and The Mandrake (Faction
of Fools), Big Love (The Hub Theatre), Rough-Face Girl (Synetic Theater),
and Romeo and Juliet (Vpstart Crow).
Edward Moser (Sound Design) is a regional audio-production veteran.
Recent designs include Marathon ’33, Visit to a Small Planet, The Country
Girl, and Little Murders (The American Century Theater), A Little Trick,
Afterplay, and Master Harold and the Boys (Quotidian Theatre), and Amelia
(Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage reading).
Johanna Schoenborn (ASM) has worked with VpStart Crow
Productions (Sapphire in Princess and the Pea, Costumes for Rumors,
ASM for Romeo and Juliet) and Barter Theatre (Production Assistant for
Jimmy Rogers: America’s Blue Yodeler, The Foreigner; Spot Op for Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors, Forever
Plaid). Radford University (Theatre).
Trena Weiss-Null (Scenic Design) designed and built the sets for The
American Century Theater productions of Life with Father, Dr. Cook’s
Garden, The Titans, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, and Cops. She works as
a director, designer, and theatre teacher in professional, community,
and educational venues and has a Bachelor’s in Acting-Directing and
Master’s in both Theatre and Education.
Download the podcast: Artistic Director Jack Marshall discusses
the TACT production of J.B. with actors Steve Lebens (Mr. Zuss),
Julie Roundtree (Sarah), and Bruce Alan Rauscher (Nickles).

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