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April 23, 2016 , The Helen

Little Row Boat or, Conjecture

A Reading of a New Play
Written by Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara

As the French Revolution brews outside, teenage slave Sally Hemings gets her first taste of freedom while serving in Thomas Jefferson’s Paris home. Inside, she becomes involved in one of the most speculated about and scandalous relationships in American history. With verve, humor, and music, playwright Kirsten Greenidge imagines how events unfolded in the Jefferson household for the family and "servants" alike. Little Row Boat is a visceral and intricate story of convictions, contradictions, and sacrifice in the pursuit of liberty.

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Amy Fritsche

Amy Fritsche

(Abigail Adams) previously appeared at Cleveland Play House in the world premiere of These Mortal Hosts and the reading of Little Row Boat or, Conjecture. She toured nationally with Annie and internationally in the world premiere of Best Intentions in London, England and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Regionally, more(Abigail Adams) previously appeared at Cleveland Play House in the world premiere of These Mortal Hosts and the reading of Little Row Boat or, Conjecture. She toured nationally with Annie and internationally in the world premiere of Best Intentions in London, England and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Regionally, she has performed with Phoenix Theater, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, CATCO Theatre, and Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles. Locally at Cleveland Public Theatre, Dobama Theatre, Porthouse Theatre, and Mamai Theatre. Favorite roles include, Arcadia (Hannah Jarvis), Superior Donuts(Officer Randy), As You Like It (Rosalind), A Little Night Music (Countess Charlotte), Annie (Grace Farrell), Chapter Two (Jenny) and Violet (Violet). She received the 2015 Cleveland Critics Circle Theater Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Violet. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Kent State University and is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA, AGVA, and AEA.

Andrew Gorell

Andrew Gorell

(Captain Ramsey/Adrien Petit) National Tours: The Lion King (Disney Theatricals); Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing (American Shakespeare Center). Regional: Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Charleston Stage, Philadelphia Shakespeare, Glimmerglass Opera. Cleveland: Bent (Beck Center); Peter and the Starcatcher (Dobama); As You Like It and The Tempest more(Captain Ramsey/Adrien Petit) National Tours: The Lion King (Disney Theatricals); Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing (American Shakespeare Center). Regional: Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Charleston Stage, Philadelphia Shakespeare, Glimmerglass Opera. Cleveland: Bent (Beck Center); Peter and the Starcatcher (Dobama); As You Like It and The Tempest (Ohio Shakespeare); and Galileo with Cleveland Play House. Film and TV: Downward Dog (ABC), My Friend Dahmer, and The Bye Bye Man. Proud member of Actor’s Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

Lee Greene

Lee Greene

(George Bridgetower/Easton Hemmings) is a 13-year-old, eighth grade student at Cuyahoga Heights Middle School and the older of two siblings. Greene caught the acting bug at the age of 6 while participating in many theatre classes and musical productions at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts, including The more(George Bridgetower/Easton Hemmings) is a 13-year-old, eighth grade student at Cuyahoga Heights Middle School and the older of two siblings. Greene caught the acting bug at the age of 6 while participating in many theatre classes and musical productions at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts, including The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Horton Hears a Who and Seussical the Musical. He has a love for music and plays the trumpet in the middle school band. He takes voice lessons from his father. Lee most recently played Schwartz in Cleveland Play House’s 2013 production of A Christmas Story.

Matthew Harris

Matthew Harris

(James Hemmings) is so ecstatic to be returning this year for The Nolan Williams Project. Matthew is very passionate about musical theatre and just graduated from Baldwin Wallace University. In August he will be moving to New York with his wife to chase his dreams and be on Broadway. more(James Hemmings) is so ecstatic to be returning this year for The Nolan Williams Project. Matthew is very passionate about musical theatre and just graduated from Baldwin Wallace University. In August he will be moving to New York with his wife to chase his dreams and be on Broadway. He was recently seen in Tick, Tick…BOOM! as Michael at Playhouse Square, and Jon in Theory of Relativity. Other credits include Cameron in Bring it On (Beck Center), Coalhouse (Chagrin Academy Theatre), and Moose in West Side Story.

Mattie Hawkinson

Mattie Hawkinson

(Polly Jefferson ) Cleveland Play House credits include: The Game’s Afoot. Regional credits include: As You Like It (Centerstage); Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winter’s Tale, Real Inspector Hound (Theatre at Monmouth); Circle Mirror Transformation (Cincinnati Playhouse); Mourning Becomes Electra, Misanthrope, Arms & The Man (Quintessence); Bell Book & Candle (Ensemble more(Polly Jefferson ) Cleveland Play House credits include: The Game’s Afoot. Regional credits include: As You Like It (Centerstage); Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winter’s Tale, Real Inspector Hound (Theatre at Monmouth); Circle Mirror Transformation (Cincinnati Playhouse); Mourning Becomes Electra, Misanthrope, Arms & The Man (Quintessence); Bell Book & Candle (Ensemble Theatre); Othello (Milwaukee Repertory); Little Night Music (Centerstage); Third (Denver Center); Inherit the Wind (Indiana Rep); Equivocation (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Snow Queen, Half & Half, Hanging Fire, Blackbird (Victory Gardens); Rock ‘N’ Roll (Goodman); I Never Sang for My Father (Steppenwolf); Winter’s Tale, Little Night Music, Flea In Her Ear (Chicago Shakespeare); Hillbilly Antigone (Lookingglass); The Importance of Being Earnest (First Folio); The Maids (Exigent); A Boston Marriage (Roadworks); workshops at Victory Gardens, Ensemble Theatre (NY) and O'Neill’s NPC. UPCOMING: Love’s Labour’s Lost at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and City of Conversation at Northlight. Mattie is an actor and playwright at Quintessence Theatre Group. mattiehawkinson.weebly.com

Zoey Martinson

Zoey Martinson

(Sally Hemmings) is Co-Founder of Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative and the recipient of 2013/14 Artistic Mentor Fellowship at Lincoln Center through the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. As a writer her play Ndebele Funeral won the Overall Excellence Award for Best Play in the NYCFringe Festival, then went on to run more(Sally Hemmings) is Co-Founder of Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative and the recipient of 2013/14 Artistic Mentor Fellowship at Lincoln Center through the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. As a writer her play Ndebele Funeral won the Overall Excellence Award for Best Play in the NYCFringe Festival, then went on to run off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters, South Africa and at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland. Her work has been nominated for Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award and she has been featured on BBC World Service. Skype Duet that she co-created and directed won the 100 Grand award at the HAU2 Theater in Berlin, Germany. As an actress she has performed at The Public Theater, Cleveland Play House, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, the Guthrie, Shakespeare On The Sound, The Flea Theatre, Theatre in the Muz, South Africa and the National Theatre of Ghana. Film/TV: Are We There Yet, Restless City, Law & Order. MFA NYU Grad Acting.

Jeff Talbott

Jeff Talbott

(Thomas Jefferson) is full of Christmas cheer and happy to be back sharing it with his family at CPH after opening the season in Into the Breeches! He has been on Broadway (Sly Fox, Fortune’s Fool); Off-Broadway (Abundance, Such Good Friends, Home of the Brave); and has extensive regional more(Thomas Jefferson) is full of Christmas cheer and happy to be back sharing it with his family at CPH after opening the season in Into the Breeches! He has been on Broadway (Sly Fox, Fortune’s Fool); Off-Broadway (Abundance, Such Good Friends, Home of the Brave); and has extensive regional credits, including his most recent: the regional premiere of Oslo. Other regional credits: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Odd Couple, Race, circle mirror transformation, Frost/Nixon, and Doubt at theatres including Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, and Yale Repertory Theatre, among many others. He has been on film (Julie & Julia) and TV (The Blacklist, Orange is the New Black, Unforgettable, Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, all the Law & Orders, One Life to Live, and As the World Turns). As a writer, his plays include The Submission (Laurents/Hatcher Award, Outer Critics Circle’s John Gassner Award; off-Broadway at MCC Theater); The Gravedigger’s Lullaby (Off-Broadway at TACT); i (Pioneer Theatre Company) and Civics and Humanities for Non-Majors (commissioned and produced by Montclair State University). He writes musicals with composer Will Van Dyke. They have written Imagine Harry, Wintersong, Seven Broken Hearts, and The Circle and the Wheel. They have also released an EP of their songs called A View of the River (available on iTunes). Jeff is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. jefftalbott.com

Jean E. Compton

(Stage Coordinator) is thrilled to return to Cleveland Play House, where she previously spent the 2015-2016 centennial season as the Stage Management Apprentice. She is now based in Chicago, where credits include The Death of Gaia Divine (Momentary Theatre), Spirits to Enforce (The Passage Theatre), Candide and Mudpie 2018 more(Stage Coordinator) is thrilled to return to Cleveland Play House, where she previously spent the 2015-2016 centennial season as the Stage Management Apprentice. She is now based in Chicago, where credits include The Death of Gaia Divine (Momentary Theatre), Spirits to Enforce (The Passage Theatre), Candide and Mudpie 2018 (Mudlark Theater Company), You for Me for You (Sideshow Theatre Company), Lizzie (Firebrand Theatre), and Shining Lives (Northlight Theatre). Her regional credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, An Octoroon, and Into the Breeches! (Chautauqua Theater Company); Venus in Fur and The Whale (Rep Stage); and the 2016-2017 season at Two River Theater. She is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University. jeanecompton.com

Kirsten Greenidge

Kirsten Greenidge

(Playwright, Roe Green Award Winner) is a recent PEN/America Award winner and Obie recipient as well as the author of Baltimore, Milk Like Sugar and The Luck of the Irish among other plays. Her work has appeared at LCT3, La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, New Rep, Company One Theatre more(Playwright, Roe Green Award Winner) is a recent PEN/America Award winner and Obie recipient as well as the author of Baltimore, Milk Like Sugar and The Luck of the Irish among other plays. Her work has appeared at LCT3, La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, New Rep, Company One Theatre Company and The Huntington. Kirsten has been fortunate enough to develop her plays at Kenyon Playwright’s Conference, Huntington Playwriting Fellows Theatre Lab, Denver Center Theatre, The O’Neill, Sundance Theatre Lab, Sundance at Ucross, A.S.K., Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Cardinal Stages and Pacific Playwright’s Festival, She is currently working on commissions from Oregon Shakespeare Festival/American Revolutions, The Kennedy Center, University of Iowa/The Big Ten Commission, The Goodman and La Jolla Playhouse. An alum of New Dramatists, Kirsten attended Wesleyan and the Playwright’s Workshop and the University of Iowa.

M. Bevin O’Gara

(Director) is the Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company and directed Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar and Melinda Lopez's Becoming Cuba. Other directing credits include Appropriate, A Future Perfect, Tribes and Clybourne Park (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Brahman/i, Chronicles of Kalki, You For Me For You, Love Person and more(Director) is the Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company and directed Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar and Melinda Lopez's Becoming Cuba. Other directing credits include Appropriate, A Future Perfect, Tribes and Clybourne Park (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Brahman/i, Chronicles of Kalki, You For Me For You, Love Person and The Pain and the Itch (Company One Theatre); Fast Company (Lyric Stage Company); Phedre (Actor's Shakespeare Project); Translations (Bad Habit Productions); Matt and Ben (Central Square Theater); Two Wives in India and Gary (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); 2.5 Minute Ride (New Repertory Theatre); Othello and The Crucible (New Rep On Tour); Melancholy Play (Holland Productions); Tattoo Girl, Painting You and Artifacts (Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop) and ANTI-KISS (3 Monkeys Theatrical Productions). She has also worked with New Repertory Theatre, the Gaiety Theatre of Dublin, and the Actors Centre of Australia and is the recipient of the Lois Roach Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Boston Theatre Community from Company One Theatre. She has a BFA from Boston University in theatre studies. mbevinogara.com

Meet CPH Managing Director Rachel Fink

Meet CPH Managing Director Rachel Fink

MEET RACHEL FINK, CPH’S NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR! By Craig Joseph, Literary Director What are you looking forward to as you return to Cleveland...

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