After last year’s sold-out run, the Park Theater transforms once again into a Christmas Wonderland for Hudson’s newest holiday tradition.
Featuring Stars of Stage and Screen
A Christmas Memory features Broadway veterans Marceline Hugot and Peter Frechette bringing the stunning Truman Capote prose to life. It's a story about kindness, adventure, discovery, and true friendship told in an intimate setting with all the sights, smells, and sounds of the holiday season.
DIRECTED BYMATT JOSLYN
MATT JOSLYN Director
is an award-winning producer and director who leads Tectonic Theater Project in partnership with founder Moisés Kaufman. Notable projects include Tectonic's critically-acclaimed world premiere productions of Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard (Miami New Drama), Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse, STC, and upcoming at New York Theatre Workshop), the Drama Desk Award-winning Seven Deadly Sins, and Laramie: A Legacy, a benefit for the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Matt is currently collaborating on projects with Sasha Velour, Life Jacket Theater, and Bess Wohl. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House.
SET & LIGHTING DESIGN BYDAVID LANDER
DAVID LANDER Set & Lighting Design
NEW YORK Broadway (selected): Torch Song (with Michael Urie), The Heiress (with Jessica Chastain), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (with Robin Williams), 33 Variations (with Jane Fonda), I Am My Own Wife. Off-Broadway (selected): Too Much Sun, Fran’s Bed, Modern Orthodox. INTERNATIONAL (selected Theatre and Opera): Dublin, Delhi, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo. REGIONAL (selected): Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, La Mirada Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe. AWARDS: Drama Desk Award (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, I Am My Own Wife), Tony Award nomination (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, 33 Variations), Outer Critics Award nomination (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, 33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife).
COSTUME DESIGN BYMEGAN RUTHERFORD
MEGAN RUTHERFORD Costume Designer
is a costume designer and artist of other baubles in New York by way of Katy, Texas thrilled to make her Hudson debut. She delights in creative collaboration: telling tales of our connection with the natural world, queer joy, chosen family and exploring the concept of home. Most recently she has worked with the Park Ave Armory, The Kitchen Theater, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, and Glimmerglass Opera. She holds a MFA in costume design from NYU and BA from UNC-Chapel Hill.
SOUND DESIGN BYBRIAN GOSS
BRIAN GOSS Sound Design
has been working in Music and Art Production for over three decades. His career began on the club circuit in Manhattan in the late 1980’s as a stage tech. He is primarily a multi-instrumentalist and producer, scoring themes for HBO, ESPN, and the Discovery Channel. Brian spent 15 years as the Art Director at the Rolex Watch Company, where his award-winning designs were adopted by the company globally. Most recently he was the Stage Manager for Little Steven VanZandt’s “Disciples of Soul” World Tour, completing 185 shows in historic theaters around the world.
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGERFRANK LOMBARDI
FRANK LOMBARDI Production Stage Manager
Broadway: A Doll’s House, Betrayal, The Cher Show, Torch Song, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, A Behanding in Spokane, Hamlet (w/Jude Law), Spamalot, Disney’s Tarzan, Hairspray, The Sound of Music, Footloose, Side Show, Steel Pier, The Phantom of the Opera, Hamlet (w/Ralph Fiennes), Passion, The Red Shoes, The Secret Garden. Off Broadway: Plenty (Public Theatre). Regional: The Lion King (original L.A.company), Camelot (Westport Country Playhouse, CT), Idaho! (Smith Center, Las Vegas), The Will Rogers Follies (Maltz Jupiter Theatre, FL); World Premieres: Catch Me If You Can (Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, WA) and Randy Newman's Faust (La Jolla Playhouse, CA).
ASSISTANT DIRECTORDEENA PEWTHERER
DEENA PEWTHERER Assistant Director
has been making theater in the Hudson Valley and Upstate region for decades. Primarily a lighting designer, Deena has also directed, acted, designed props, and worked in just about every aspect of theater production. Her work as an artist began in 1960; throughout her career she has collaborated with artists locally, in England, California, New York City and throughout the Hudson Valley. A founding member of Hudson's first professional theater company, Deena is proud to collaborate with Matt & Jeff for the second year on The Whale Theatre's production, now as assistant director.
PRODUCTION MANAGERERIKA JOHNSON
ERIKA JOHNSON Production Manager
is very excited to join the A Christmas Memory & The Thanksgiving Visitor team this year - normally working as the Production Manager for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Before relocating to the Berkshires Erika was based in New York City lighting for television, theater, and dance. She had the pleasure of designing shows for everything from Red Bull Music to Animal Planet; and spent full seasons with some truly fabulous institutions such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Ballet, Broadway, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Erika spent her summers before S&Co as the production manager/ head electrician for Adirondack Theatre Festival, putting on Broadway-bound productions like Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, Loch Ness, Calling All Kates, and Beau. Erika has spent the last seven years traveling the world as the lighting supervisor for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a company of folks very close to her heart.
CASTING DIRECTORSTEPHANIE YANKWITT, C.S.A.
STEPHANIE YANKWITT, C.S.A. Casting Director
NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: Theatre for a New Audience: GNIT | Gingold Theatrical Page 73 Productions: Stew | Soho Repertory Theatre: Fairview. REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse: Here There Are Blueberries, The Coast Starlight. OTHER: Broadway Podcast Network podcast. PERSONAL: Stephanie is a CSA Member who sits on the Equity in Entertainment Committee.
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Produced with permission from the Capote Literary Trust
Thursday, November 30
through Saturday, December 23
Truman Capote was a major American voice of the 20th Century. Perhaps best known for his true crime novel In Cold Blood, as well as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Capote was a prolific short story writer, and his deeply personal short story, A Christmas Memory was first published in 1956. It's a lyrical story narrated by Capote about two outsiders in a big Alabama home in the early 1930s: an eight year old Truman and his best friend and distant cousin, a quirky, sprightly spinster in her 60s. Through their annual tradition of making fruitcakes together, Truman paints a vivid picture of his early life, sharing the profound need of lost souls to make a connection, even across a generational divide.
Run Time: Two Hours with One 15 Minute Intermission
