Uncle Vanya runs from Friday, February 8, through Sunday, February 17. Performances are 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $25 for the general public, $20 for Rutgers alumni and employees and seniors and only $15 for students with valid ID. The Philip J. Levin Theater is in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center, 85 George Street (between Route 18 and Ryders Lane), on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick. For more information about any Mason Gross event, and to learn more about the 2012-2013 season at Mason Gross Performing Arts Center and Galleries, visit www.masongross.rutgers.edu, or call the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center ticket office at 732-932-7511.
Rutgers Theater Company
The Mason Gross School of the Art's Theater Department combines rigorous studio class work with a demanding production schedule to provide students with in-depth training and practice in theater. The Rutgers Theater Company is a resident company of student actors, designers, directors, playwrights, stage managers, and technicians whose work is guided by master teachers and accomplished professionals. These conservatory students are enrolled in the three-year Master of the Fine Arts (MFA) and four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) programs.
Kristan Kelly Brown (Sonya -- MFA III) is from Reno, Nevada. She received her BA from Whitman College. Rutgers Theater Company credits include Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Mr. Morris in Cost of Living, Loud Stone in Eurydice, Ruth in Hunting and Gathering, Linda in Fiction, and Anna in Fires in the Mirror.
Bleu Beckford Burrell (Marina -- MFA III) is from Far Rockaway, Queens, New York. She graduated from Stony Brook University with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Theater. Her Rutgers University credits include Marat/Sade, Tracing Nora, Fabulation, Intimate Apparel, and Doubt. Other credits include The Waiting Room, and Crumbs from the Table of Joy.
Aaliyah Muneerah Habeeb (Yelena -- MFA III) hails from Kent, Ohio. She received her BA from the University of Pittsburgh. Rutgers University credits include: A Raisin in the Sun, Intimate Apparel, Machinal, Lady of Fadima, A History of Kites, and Marat/Sade. Professional credits include an Off-Off Broadway production of Goodness (Project Y Theatre Company).
Adam Hardin (Hired Man -- MFA I) comes from Stillwater, Oklahoma. He graduated from Earlham College in 2005. His professional credits include Hay Fever at the VOICEtheater, and Departure, which was an official selection of the HBO 2011 Latino Film Festival.
Will Hardyman (Vanya -- MFA III) is from Seattle, Washington. He received his BA in Rhetoric from Willamette University. His Rutgers University credits include: Butch Honeywell in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Leonard Jeffries in Fires in the Mirror; Jasper in The Aliens; Geoffrey in A Taste of Honey; Gene in The Author's Voice; Mesrou in La Dispute.
Joshua Marx (Astrov -- MFA III) is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Joshua's Rutgers Theater Company credits include: The Dining Room, The Author's Voice, Much Ado About Nothing, Nathan's Secret Girlfriend, Fires In the Mirror, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Professional credits include: Theater Under the Stars, Berkshire Theater Group, City Lights, and Renegade Theater.
Ruffin Prentiss (Telegin -- MFA III) is from Richmond, Virginia. He received his BA in Theater Arts from the University of Pittsburgh. His Rutgers University credits include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Intimate Apparel, Much Ado About Nothing, Machinal, Fabulation, Solitary, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Other credits include works at the Guthrie Theater, Kuntu Repertory, and Pitt Rep.
Jordan Spoon (Mrs. Voinitsky -- MFA III) is from Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her BA in Theater Studies and English from Guilford College. Her Mason Gross School of the Arts credits include: The Dining Room, The Cost of Living, Machinal, and Marat/Sade.
Serge Thony (Professor Serebriakov -- MFA III) is from Brooklyn, New York, and received his BA from the University at Buffalo. Professional credits: One Life to Live, Saturday Night Live, All My Children and the film Red, White and Detroit. Rutgers University credits: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Topdog/Underdog, Fires in the Mirror, and A Raisin in the Sun.
Pamela Berlin (Director) teaches in the directing and acting programs of the Mason Gross Theater Department at Rutgers University. New York credits include the original Steel Magnolias, which ran for three years off-Broadway, The Cemetery Club on Broadway, Endpapers (Variety Arts), To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square), Elm Circle (Playwrights Horizons) Crossing Delancey (Jewish Rep), The Family Of Mann (Second Stage), Club Soda (WPA). Regionally, she has directed plays at the Kennedy Center, Seattle Rep, Long Wharf, Pittsburgh Public, Pasadena Playhouse, Virginia Stage Co, Portland Stage, etc. She also directs opera. Pam has participated in the Sundance Playwrights Institute, Theatreworks Palo Alto, and the New York Theatre Workshop Summer Program. She is a long time member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and served as President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national labor union, from 2000 to 2006.
Bethanie Wampol (Set Design -- MFA III) is from Birmingham, Alabama, having completed undergraduate degrees in theater and art from Troy University. Past Rutgers University credits include Topdog/Underdog and House for Sale. Selected professional credits include set and assistant set design at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (Williamstown, Massachusetts) and Brevard Music Center (Brevard, North Carolina).
Caity Mulkearns (Costume Design -- MFA III) spent her childhood in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She has worked regionally with theatres including Amphibian Stage Productions (TX), Trinity Shakespeare Festival (TX), and Barrington Stage Company (MA). Last semester she interned with CBS's The Good Wife. Mason Gross: Homemade, House for Sale, Fabulation, and Fiction.
Jeff Carr (Lighting Design -- MFA III) is a graduate of Christopher Newport University in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Credits include: King's River (off-off Broadway) The Nutcracker Ballet (Centenary College). Rutgers University credits include, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Much Ado About Nothing, Home Made, House for Sale and boom.
Jerome Smith (Sound Design -- BFA II) is from Rockaway, New Jersey. Rutgers Theater Company credits: Doubt: A Parable (Assistant Stage Manager), Intimate Apparel (Production Assistant). www.jerryksmith.com
Claire Dyrud (Stage Manager -- MFA III) hails from Klamath Falls, Oregon. She graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts from University of Oregon. She recently interned at Manhattan Theatre Club and worked on Enemy of the People and The Other Place on Broadway. Rutgers University credits include Topdog/Underdog, Nathan's Secret Girlfriend, boom, and The Hostage.
About Mason Gross School of the Arts
Founded in 1976, Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and home to the departments of dance, music, theater arts, and visual arts as well as an Extension Division and Arts Online. Its faculty and alumni rosters include arts professionals recognized nationally and internationally, including Kristin Davis, Calista Flockhart, Avery Brooks, Cleo Mack, William Pope.L, Alice Aycock, Sean Jones, and Cristina Pato. The school's enrollment of 711 undergraduates across four departments and 318 graduate students across four departments, combined with a faculty of 190, assures students the opportunity to work closely with accomplished artists within their fields.
About Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
A comprehensive research institution with more than 50,000 students on three main campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden, Rutgers comprises one of the major state university systems in the nation. Chartered in 1766 in New Brunswick as Queen's College, Rutgers is the eighth-oldest institution of higher learning in the nation.
