Digital Program | Baryshnikov Arts Presents: A Mother

ABOUT

A Mother, a groundbreaking new play with original songs, is the story of first love, first grief, and theater camp. Set in Miami Beach circa 1980, Jessica Hecht weaves together teenage memories of her boyfriend Daryl, played by Fergie L. Philippe, as they disco dance away the last two weeks of the 1970s just as racial tensions in Miami rise. Jessica simultaneously steps into Brecht’s banned play The Mother, taking on the role of a woman who becomes an activist through the revolutionary work of her son. An unforgettable ride through layers of memory and invention. Will there be singing in dark times? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times. And…there will also be disco dancing, water ballet, and chicken soup.

A Mother is a world premiere commissioned and presented by Baryshnikov Arts. The piece was developed in part during a Baryshnikov Arts residency.

ARTISTS

JESSICA HECHT (Jess/Pelagea/Pearl and Co-Conceiver): Broadway credits include Eureka Day and Summer, 1976 (Tony Nomination), The Price, Fiddler on the Roof, The Assembled Parties, Harvey, After the Fall, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Julius Caesar, and A View from the Bridge (Tony Nomination). Off-Broadway, she has appeared in King Lear, Stage Kiss, Three Sisters, The Orchard, Letters from Max, and Admissions (Obie Award & Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination). Her recent television appearances include the Netflix series “Special,” for which she received an Emmy Award Nomination, and her roles on “Tokyo Vice,” “Super Pumped,” “The Sinner,” “The Loudest Voice,” “Dickinson,” “The Boys,” and “Succession.” She is also recognizable to television audiences from her roles in the beloved series “Friends” and “Breaking Bad.” She recently completed the film Eleanor the Great directed by Scarlett Johansson. Jessica teaches acting at both Williams College and the HB Playwright’s Studio. She founded the Campfire Project in 2017 and has worked with refugee communities in camps world wide. She maintains programming in both NYC and at the Palorinya Settlement in Moyo Town, Uganda.

FERGIE PHILIPPE (Daryl/Pavel/Pablo) will soon be touring the nation as The Beast in the 30th Anniversary Revival tour of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast. Previous Credits—Broadway: Hamilton (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Camelot (Sir Sagramore; King Arthur U/S). Off-Broadway: The Connector (Bob Henshaw/Willis Taylor). National Tour: Hamilton (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison). TV/Film: “The Good Fight,” “The Gilded Age,” “Law and Order: SVU,” Space Cadet. He sends his love to Rose, his family, and his thanks to HCKR and The Boothe Group.

DELILAH NAPIER (Michelle/Police Officer/Simon). Theater: Our Class (BAM Fisher & Classic Stage Company), Merchant Of Venice (Classic Stage Company), Member of the Wedding (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Taming of the Shrew (Powerhouse/NYSAF). TELEVISION: “Criminal Minds,” “Billions,” “The Sinner,” “Gossip Girl.” FILM: Floating Carousel (post-production), Voyeur (starred, co-writer/director)—winner “Best US Feature Film” and “The Audience Award” at the SoHo International Film Festival, “Best Actor” at Yale in Hollywood Film Festival, and other awards. (Now streaming on Amazon Prime.) Currently in development with writing partner, Lucy Powers, on a new screenplay with production company, Star Thrower, as well as several other projects.

PORTIA (Ivan/Van/Sandy/Eula Bell McDuffie). Theater: Redwood (Ensemble Studio Theatre), To Kill A Mockingbird (Broadway), Stew (Walkerspace, World Premiere, Pulitzer Finalist), The Rose Tattoo (Broadway), Another Shot (Pershing Square Linney Theatre), Ruined (MTC/Geffen Playhouse), McReele (Roundabout Theater Company), LAByrinth Theatre Company: Our Lady of

121st St., In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Regional/International: The Master’s Tools (Wien Festwochen, Vienna Austria), A Midsummer Night’s Dream In Harlem (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination/don’t get got and Artney Jackson (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Sweat (Mark Taper), Fences (Longwharf & McCarter Theater). Film: Intervention, Lapsis, All The Little Things We Kill, Skin, From Nowhere, St. Vincent, The Greatest, The Messenger, Please Give.

ZANE PAIS (Anton/Antoine/Skater/Dockmaster/Isaac). He recently starred in Sarah Ruhl’s acclaimed world premiere Letters from Max at Signature Theater, directed by Kate Whoriskey. Previously starred in Richard Greenberg’s The Perplexed at MTC; in Jack Thorne’s world premiere of Sunday, directed by Lee Sunday Evans at Atlantic Theater Company; in the stage adaptation of Dead Poets Society, directed by John Doyle at Classic Stage Company; and in Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur, directed by Scott Elliott for The New Group. He starred in and executive produced Kit Zauhar’s independent feature This Closeness, which premiered at SXSW 2023 and received an Audience Award nomination. Pais made his film debut in Noah Baumbach’s Margot At The Wedding. He also previously appeared the independent feature Minyan, which premiered at the 2020 Berlinale, and Amy Rice’s The Independent starring Brian Cox. On television, Pais had a pivotal arc in Starz’s “Three Women” opposite Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, and Dewanda Wise.

NEENA BEBER (Writer, Co-Conceiver): Plays include Jump/Cut, A Foreign Body, The Dew Point, Hard Feelings, Tomorrowland, A Common Vision, The Brief but Exemplary Life of the Living Goddess (as told by herself) and the short plays Specter and Misreadings. Most recent: Kate Suspended (National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill Center); libretto for Rutka (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) and Iphigenia (operetta, composer Anthony Brandt). Recipient of an Obie grant, a Lilly Award, the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, a Sloan Commission and a MacDowell Fellowship. A two-time Emmy nominee, she has written extensively for film and television (most recently, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”). Neena was born and raised in Miami, Florida and holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University where she specialized in Latin American literature and an M.F.A from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Paulette Goddard Fellow. A member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, her lyrics are featured in work by frequent collaborator Jaime Lozano. An alumna of New Dramatists, Neena has taught at Columbia University, mentored at Reel Works, and sits on the Advisory Board of The Orchard Project.

MARIA MILEAF (Director) is a New York–based director whose directing credits include Neena Beber’s Tomorrowland at New Georges and her Hard Feelings for WP Theatre/New Georges, Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice at Playwrights Horizons (with Jessica Hecht); Jessica Dickey’s The Rembrandt at TheaterWorks Hartford; Kwame Kwei Armah’s Let There Be Love at Penguin Rep; Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water, with assistant stage manager Jenn McNeil; and Sharon Washington’s Feeding the Dragon at Primary Stages; Dawn Saito’s HA at DTW, Vijay Tendulkar’s Sakharam Binder for the Play Company; Oren Safdie’s Gratitude at Urban Stages; Courtney Baron’s Here I Lie for Summer Shorts @ 59E59 and Alexandra Gersten-Vasillaros’ The Argument at The Vineyard. Regionally, Mileaf’s directing work has been seen at New York Stage and Film, The Old Globe, Philadelphia Theatre Company where she won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction, Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Geffen. Mileaf is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. 

SHURA BARYSHNIKOV (Choreographer) is a New England–based artist who works broadly across dance, theater, and opera. Recent credits include projects at Hartford Stage Company, Trinity Repertory Company, Boston Lyric Opera, FirstWorks, Emmanuel Music, Motion State Arts, The Gamm Theatre, Odyssey Opera, and the Contemporary American Theater Festival, among others. Baryshnikov directed Svadba, a cinematic opera for Boston Lyric Opera, which received the award for Artistic Creation at the 2nd Annual OPERA America Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera in 2023. Baryshnikov is an Associate Professor of the Practice at Brown University in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies where she has held a full-time appointment since 2017 and has also instructed at Dean College, Connecticut College, and MIT. Both a performer and a designer, Baryshnikov is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, the American Guild of Musical Artists, and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

MUSTAPHA KHAN (Musical Director) is an Emmy Award–winning film director, music producer and songwriter. His award-winning film Song For Our People, streaming now on Amazon Prime Video, is about the creation of a new musical anthem he created to celebrate Black perseverance. His other films include: the coming-of-age movie Rocksteady, and the documentaries Reflections of a Native Son, House on Fire, Life & Breath and Step to the Future. His original music can also be heard in numerous commercials and TV shows, including “Sesame Street,” and under his collective’s moniker Peace, Funk & Sunshine. Artists Khan has had the privilege to direct include: Quincy Jones, Gloria Estefan, Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys, Ray Charles, LL Cool J, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Elmo, Big Bird and all of the “Sesame Street” muppets. Mustapha Khan is a graduate of Harvard University, a Rotary International Scholar, a lifetime member of the Directors Guild of America, and an Associate Professor of Film at Brooklyn College.

WILLIAM KENNETH VAUGHAN (Musician) is a singer/songwriter on the triple-platinum Boomerang soundtrack, the House Party soundtrack, and the “Leave No Child Behind” National PSA. Vaughan has written multiple songs for Sesame Street including “Count Me In” which was performed by Meghan Trainor on Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and also covered by Jimmy Fallon and the Roots with Elmo and the Muppets. His band, Essex Funk Collective, performs in the Tri-State Area.

NORMAN “SKIP” BURNS (Composer and Musician) signed with Bon Ami/MCA Records in 1990 as part of the R&B group 4 Destiny. With over 35 years of experience, he has written and recorded more than 60 songs, available on Spotify, iTunes, and Apple Music. Skip was featured in Mustapha Khan’s award-winning documentary, Song For Our People, performing the song “What Have You Done With Your Freedom?” screened at film festivals across the country. In 2023, Skip received a Telly Award for his performance in the social justice video entitled “Don’t Cry.” In 2024, he performed live with American rap group The Sugarhill Gang at the Glass House in New York City. Skip also performed live at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations in 2023, 2024, and 2025. He continues to perform as gospel hip-hop artist Normie B at church events across the state of New Jersey. His Juneteenth performance earned awards from the Bergen County Board of Commissioners, County Executive, and Sheriff’s Office. Skip also appeared in a national PSA for the Leave No Child Behind Campaign.

DARYL EISENBERG, CSA (Casting): Artist-nominated full-service casting office for Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, tours, developmental theater, film, television, audio, commercials, and new media. Member of Casting Society of America. Chair of the Somerset County Film Commission and former Watchung Borough Councilmember.

FAREEDA PASHA (Dramaturg) is a New York–based theater artist and advisor (Dramatists Guild; AEA). She is passionate about creating inclusive, provocative, and entertaining stories that subvert prevailing narratives. Her plays have been produced at Brooklyn Art Haus and Theater Row, and internationally at the BIRD Theater Festival in Japan and an upcoming production at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her acting credits include Brecht on Brecht Off-Broadway (ART New York). Fareeda serves on two NYC-based nonprofit Off-Broadway theater boards at the intersection of arts and activism: Theater Breaking Through Barriers (formerly Theater by the Blind) and Gingold Theatrical Group (dedicated to the works and spirit of George Bernard Shaw). She holds a BA from Barnard College (Summa Cum Laude) in English Literature, and Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, and an MBA from Stanford University. 

NEIL PATEL (Scenic Designer)’s recent projects: Laurence Fishburne’s Like They Do in the Movies, Perelman Performing Arts Center, Civilization to Nation: The Great Indian Musical, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center in Mumbai, Antoine Fuqua’s “King Shaka” (CBS/Showtime) and David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind (Denver Center for Performing Arts/Arbutus.) Notable film and television projects: “Dickinson” for AppleTV+ (Peabody Award), “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin” for HBOMAX, Some Velvet Morning (TriBeCa Film Festival) for TriBeca Films, “In Treatment” for HBO (Peabody Award), Dil Dhadakne Do and Little Boxes (TriBeCa Film Festival, Netflix). Designs for theater, dance and opera: Tony Award–winning Side Man, West End, Public Theater, American Repertory Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, Goodman Theater, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Gate (Dublin), Parco Theater (Tokyo), Edinburgh International Festival, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival among many others. Recent productions include: Mughal e Azam, Mumbai, New Delhi and worldwide tour, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3), Royal Court in London and Time and the Conways on Broadway. Member of the SITI Company, designed many productions including War of the Worlds and Hotel Cassiopeia, Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. Patel is a member of United Scenic Artists.

KAREN BOYER (Costume Designer) designs and builds costumes in NYC. Past and recent collaborators include choreographers Catherine Galasso, Faye Driscoll, Sidra Bell, Abigail Levine, Sarah Dahnke, nicHi douglas, Katy Pyle, and Sunny Hitt; Opera Columbus, Fresh Squeezed Opera, and theater makers Yangtze Rep, the New Wild, Object Collection, harunalee, and Target Margin Theater. BFA: Maryland Institute College of Art, MFA: NYU Tisch. Boyer is a member of United Scenic Artists.  

MATTHEW RICHARDS (Lighting Designer). Broadway: Ann starring Holland Taylor. Opera: Macbeth at LA Opera, Wolf Trap. Off-Broadway: Is God Is at Soho Rep; The Killer, Tamburlaine, and Measure For Measure at Theatre For a New Audience; The Atlantic; B.A.M.; Geva; LCT3; MCC; The Mint; Playwrights Horizons; Play Co.; Primary Stages; Second Stage; Rattlestick Theater. Regional: Actor’s Theater of Louisville; The Alley; Arena Stage; Baltimore’s Center Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse; Cleveland Playhouse; Dallas Theater Center; Ford’s Theatre; The Goodman; The Guthrie; Hartford Stage; The Huntington; Long Wharf; La Jolla Playhouse; The Old Globe; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Shakespeare Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Westport Playhouse; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Yale Repertory Theatre. 

NICK T. MOORE (Sound Designer) is a New York City–based composer and sound designer with over 20 years of experience. Most recently, he composed the score to the critically acclaimed, award-winning short film The Feeling Part** which screened at the Chelsea Film Festival. His work includes: International: The Garden of Alla*—Edinburgh Fringe/Theater West, LA/Revolution Stage, Palm Springs, CA/Firehouse, VA/Kennedy Center/8 NY Productions; Off-Broadway: The Drawer Boy*—SoHo Playhouse/Oberon Theater Ensemble; Orson’s Shadow, 25th Anniversary Production, TCN; The Dark Outside, TCN; Expatriate—Culture Project; Summer Shorts 14’–19’—59E59/Throughline Artists; Crazy for the Dog—Jean Cocteau Rep., Defenses of Prague—La Mama; Embraceable Me—(NY/NC) RReiner/Blumenthal PAC; Off-Off-Broadway: 18 w/Resonance Ensemble, including 23 Knives*; 9 w/Oberon including Keep on Truckin’*; Peace, The Musical*. Film: Being Reel**—(Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s); The Feeling Part**, Lily**, 7 Men of Hanukkah**. Nick is an Expert Teaching Artist at Roundabout Theater Company 

*Best Music, Musical, and/or Sound Design nominee, **festival winner and various selections.

THOMAS JENKELEIT (Prop Designer) is a prop and scenic designer from Queens, New York devoted to creating new, reimagined, and thought-provoking work. Off-Broadway: SUMO (The Public/Ma-Yi), The Fires, Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! (Soho Rep.), The Wind & The Rain (Vineyard Theater/En Garde Arts) Franklinland, Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother? (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Sex Variants of 1941 (The Civilians), Illinoise (Park Avenue Armory), All The World’s a Stage (Keen Company). BFA Ithaca College. 

JAMES FITZSIMMONS aka “Fitz” (Production Stage Manager). 26 Broadway shows and over 40 Off-Broadway and regional productions. This is his fifth show with the magical Jessica Hecht. He has been a proud AEA member for 37 years and a partner in BLACK IRISH PRODUCTIONS. He is also the proud creator of The Rebecca Luker Theatrical Partnership with Clear Space Theatre Company in Rehoboth Beach Delaware. Thanks to Jenn, Liza, and Annie for being an amazing team.

JENN MCNEIL (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: Hand to God, Constellations, Side Show, A Christmas Story (and its mini tour), Other Desert Cities, The People in the Picture, The Addams Family, Everyday Rapture, Come Back, Little Sheba. Jenn stage managed for 8 years at Blue Man Group New York. She’s proud to have been a part of the Blue Man Community and there for the closing performance of the production’s 33-year run. Some Off-Broadway highlights: Lee Blessing’s A Body of Water with director Maria Mileaf; Red Bull Theater; Roundabout Theater Company; Classical Theater of Harlem; Ma-Yi Theater Company. Regional: Murder for Two: Holiday Edition, My Fair Lady, Hairspray! in concert, The Nutty Professor. SUNY Geneseo and Juilliard Internship Program graduate. For my Big Sis, Karen.

LIZA MILLER (Production Assistant) is delighted to make her off-Broadway debut. She is a student of the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology and the School of Visual Arts. Her previous live performance credits include Book Club Radio, My Life in a Minor Key, and The Unfixing installation. In addition, she has professional experience as a video editor, graphic designer, writer, and producer.

ANNIE STEIN (Production Assistant) is a recent graduate of Brown University, where she was a member of the theater producing board Something on the Green, and co-wrote and co-directed Hint: The Parody of the Play of the Movie of the Board Game. Her one-act The Ghost of Bob Dylan Shows One of Us Greatness was featured in SPF:30, a short play festival at Brown, and will be a part of the 2025 Soho Playhouse Lighthouse Series. A workshop reading of her play White Elephant, produced by Trove Theater Collective at the Tank,is upcoming in April. She has worked at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and, more recently, with Uptown One Train Theater Co and the Episodic Theatre Project. Notably, she played the role of Veruca Salt’s mom in a Jewish summer camp production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at age 10. 

LANA RUSSELL (Producer/General Manager) is an artistic producer, director, and dramaturg specializing in new plays and musicals. Russell has produced, directed, or developed plays at The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Civilians, The Lark, Primary Stages, New Georges, Cal Shakes, Naked Angels, Dorset Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Bedlam and New York Stage and Film. Russell is the Director of Producing and Programming at The Orchard Project and was the previous General Manager at Hudson Valley Shakespeare. Recent producing includes workshops of Five Notes by Gloria and Emily Estefan and Karen Zacarias, directed by Michael Greif and Safety Not Guaranteed by Nick Blaemire and Ryan Miller, directed by Lee Sunday Evans. Member: Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. MFA: Directing, New School. BA: Theater, UC Irvine. Classical Certification: Balliol College, Oxford University. 

SUSAN KAPLAN (Producer) is a native Floridian born and raised on Miami Beach. Kaplan was Associate Producer with David Friedson on the theatrical shows It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues; Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home; Dame Edna: The Royal Tour. Produced the Academy Award– nominated documentary, Small Wonders, adapted into the feature film, Music of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep; directed and produced the critically acclaimed feature documentary, Three of Hearts: A Post Modern Family. Kaplan co-produced, assistant edited, distributed films for the Four Oaks Foundation on subjects ranging from the Guarneri String Quartet to John Cage to 1989’s Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Kaplan is currently producing the podcast, If Your Curls Could Talk with host, Lorraine Massey (CurlyWorld), and is the founder of DocuClub, a documentary film group offering in person work-in-progress screenings to documentary filmmakers for over 25 years. Co-Facilitator of a virtual work-in-progress program on the D-Word. An active member of the Documentary Producers Association’s (DPA) Producing Toward Equity (PTE) program.

CATHY RADUNS AND STEVEN SILVERSTEIN (Producers). New to the production world! Executive produced the award-winning indie film Brooklyn Minnesota. Silverstein is CEO of Spirit Halloween, Spencer Gifts, and Spirit of Children (which raises millions for hospitals serving children across the US). Raduns, adult and child psychiatrist, has worked with Hecht and immigrants since 2018 as team mental health expert for The Campfire Project. Raduns and Silverstein have enthusiastically followed the career of the immensely gifted and astonishingly funny Neena Beber and are thrilled to support this meeting of two wonderful talents.

KATE CAMPANA (Associate Producer). In a career spanning 30 years, Kate managed multisector communications and financial partnerships to drive social impact on behalf of vulnerable communities in Africa. Founded and served as CEO and Board Chair of Speak Up Africa, Inc. and The Access Challenge. Both Speak Up Africa and The Access Challenge work in partnership with African Heads of State, the African Union, the Africa CDC, the World Health Organization, and global bilateral and multilateral donors in order to promote universal health access. Leveraged celebrity engagement and brand identity to catalyze national movements against preventable disease. These movements ignite individual behavior change while holding national leaders to account for funding and operational progress on health.

Kate currently volunteers as a lawyer with the Asylum Support Center, helping refugees obtain legal status in the United States.

ALEX MONTOYA (Associate Producer—Orchard Project) is a Producer and AEA Stage Manager based in New York City, currently on tour with the North American tour of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Prior to joining the OP, he was the Associate Producer for the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ. Additionally, he spent four seasons with New York Stage and Film, supporting both emerging and established artists and their stories in process.

ABOUT BARYSHNIKOV ARTS

Baryshnikov Arts, founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov and celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is rooted in the belief that artists hold irreplaceable roles in our world by shaping perspectives, offering new approaches, and initiating crucial conversations in complex social, political, and cultural environments. Our mission supports artistic freedom, providing multidisciplinary artists with opportunities for creative exploration and unique artistic expression, and allowing audiences to view the world in new ways. We offer performance and commissioning opportunities, artist residencies, rentals, and more. baryshnikovarts.org

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dave Hattem, Chairman
R. Jarrett Lilien, Treasurer
Steven C. Dupré, Secretary

Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jamie Bishton
Sandy Choi
Frank Cordasco

Carlo Di Dio
William James Earle
Sandra Foschi
Jennifer Frautschi
Slavka B. Glaser
Rebecca Goldring
Sonja Kostich
Darryl Pinckney
Shelley Washington

STAFF

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Founder and Artistic Director
Sonja Kostich, President and Executive Director

ADMINISTRATION
Nicole Proto, Business Administration Manager

PROGRAMMING
Sam Black, Artistic Associate
Pedja Muzijevic, Artistic Administrator
Alexandra Cook, Director of Education and Community Engagement

DEVELOPMENT
Chani Sebazco, Development Manager

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Lydia Murray, Marketing and Communications Manager
Victoria Zdunkiewicz, Box Office and Digital Marketing Manager

PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS
Tyler Benware, Director of Production and Operations
Natasha Bruno, Technical and Operations Manager
Jesse Campbell, Lighting Director

BARYSHNIKOV ARTS CONSULTANTS
Andrew Julia, Director of Finance, AJulia Consulting, LLC
Stephen Viksjo, Graphic Designer
Eric Wolfram, Web Developer
Sean Regan, Perfect Balance Bookkeeping, Inc., Bookkeeper

A MOTHER PRODUCTION OVERHIRE CREW

Isaac Grivett, Wardrobe Supervisor

Leo Mendoza, Head Audio-Video/Sound Board Operator (A1)

Eric Sanford, Head Electrician/Light Board Operator

Carpenters/Electricians:
Corban Gililland
David Perez
Michael Propster
Brandon Reyes
Sebastian Sanchez

ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY THEATRICAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FELLOWS

Chantel Edwards, A2

Nino Roldan, A2

Dale Villaruel, A2

A MOTHER FRONT-OF-HOUSE STAFF
Jennifer Rico, House Manager
Kymber Dodd, Assistant Box Office Manager

Box Office Assistants/Ushers:
James Alt

Felicia Avalos

Gina Bonati

Janet Charleston

Elliott Cunningham

Khadijah Danielian

Rachel Ford

Dana Freeman

Jason Guy

Lana Hankinson

Jenna Hernandez

Rebecca Kaye

Peter McGarry

Braden Misiaszek

Iris Morales

Rocky Nardone

Hannah Oren

Melanie Raush

Peter Sciscioli

Patrice Smith

Sheryl Sutton

Berd Vaval

Christine Zeszotarski

A MOTHER CONSULTANTS

Candi Adams, Publicist

Beatrice Kimmel, EMPKT Media, Additional PR and Promotions

Jeffrey Schmelkin, JEST Marketing, Digital Marketing

Special thanks to our production crew, front-of-house staff, and volunteers.

The actors and stage managers of A Mother appear through an agreement between Mother Brecht LLC and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

A MOTHER ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FRIENDS:

Anonymous (2) Black Irish LLC

Ruth and Steve Hendel
Barbara Manocherian
Mary Beth O’Connor
Sarah O’Neill

Amy Sherman & Dan Palladino
Marc Turkel

Tiger Baron Foundation

SPECIAL THANKS:

Beber Silverstein Group
Jennifer Beber

Susan Bernfield & New Georges
David Ebanks

Margarita Ebanks
Jesse Kovarsky
Joshua Kwassman
Deborah Lopez
Lisa O’Kelly

New York Theatre Workshop
Strand Bookstore & Walker Iverson
Theresa Rebeck

Marc Turkel

Disco art by Gwen Smith.

The music team would like to thank and acknowledge the musical contributions of Anthony Moody, Rachel Smith, Dawna Pazant and Wendy Ward.

A Mother is co-produced with assistance from the Orchard Project (Ari Edelson, Artistic Director).

A Mother was rehearsed at Baryshnikov Arts and

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Scenery fabricated and painted by Proctors Collaborative Scene Shop, Schenectady, New York.

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Kirk Radke & Liz Gerring 

Dianna Raedle 

Christopher Rao

Jennifer Rawe

Laila Robbins 

John Rockwell

James Roe & Gemsel Hernandez

Jade Roth

Abby Rothchild

Eve and Jon Rounds

Gerrit Ruetzel

Howard & Vesna Sacks

John Sansone

Laura Schoen 

Marty Secada

Mark Seliger 

Nancy Seltzer, Jr. 

Joel Shapiro & Ellen Phelan 

Beth Shabto

Wallace Shawn

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino 

Lois Sherwin

Alexandra Shiva

Robert Shulman

Sondra Siegel

Gary Silber

Sheree Silvey

Sylvia Skratek

Leslie Smolan 

Ellen Sorrin

Genevieve Springer 

Matthew Steimel 

Christina Sterner

Glenn Stevens 

Angèle Surault 

Donald Sutton

Sarah Taylor

Michael Tersigni & David Palachek

Phoung Tranvan

Pamela Urueta

Julie C. Van Camp 

Reggie Van Lee 

Illiana van Meeteren 

Louis Venturelli

Marc Waldor 

Robert Wallace

Daniel Walsh

Nicola Walter 

Deborah Ward

Shelley Washington

Maggie Waterhouse

Michael Wehman

Suanne Weil

Steven Weissman 

Jedediah Wheeler 

David N. White

Vicente Wolf

Matthew Yee

John Yonover

Janet Young & Jeremy Kramer

Andrew Zobler

As of March 14, 2025.

Institutional

Leadership support for Baryshnikov Arts has been provided by:

Alphadyne Foundation

Apotheosis Events

Arnhold Foundation

KK Auchincloss Creativity Fund

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Norris and Debra Bishton Foundation

Cyrus Capital Partners

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

Enoch Foundation 

The Marshall Frankel Foundation

Frieze

Gartner

Global Atlantic 

Princess Grace Foundation- USA

Howard Gilman Foundation

Goldring Family Foundation

The Harkness Foundation for Dance

The Irving Harris Foundation

The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust

William Talbott Hillman Foundation

Hudson Yards/Related

Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance

Alex Katz Foundation

Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation

Lanvin

Andrew Mellon Foundation

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

New York State Council on the Arts

Omega Systems

Paula Cooper Gallery

Muriel Pollia Foundation

The Jerome Robbins Foundation

The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Shubert Foundation

The Thompson Family Foundation

Weber Shandwick

As of March 14, 2025.

Baryshnikov Arts is grateful for:

Support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts

Baryshnikov Arts programming made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature

Yamaha is the official piano of Baryshnikov Arts.