The Niceties

Broadway: Rumors, High Society, Arcadia, Accent on Youth, Present Laughter. Off-Broadway: Look Back in Anger (Theatre World Award), A Call From the East, My Sister in this House (Obie Award), Three Sisters, Antigone, Isn’t it Romantic (Drama Desk nomination), Emily, Fighting International Fat, Ten by Tennessee, The Alice Complex, Go Back to Where You Are, The Niceties. Film: Gone Girl, A Cure for Wellness, The Hotel New Hampshire, Marie, Young Guns, Cocktail, Dragonfly, The Jackal, Pumpkin, Without Limits, Freedom Writers. Acres of television includes the series The Trials of Rosie O’Neil, Girls Club, Son of the Beach— recurring roles include China Beach, Six Feet Under, King of Queens, Royal Pains, Masters of Sex, Nashville. Graduate of the Juilliard School and alumnae of The Acting Company.

Jordan is a 2018 graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and recently appeared in Hulu’s The Path. Some of her favorite past roles include Berniece in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Emilia from Shakespeare’s Othello. Instagram: @jordanknolveree

Eleanor Burgess's work has been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Huntington Theatre Company, the Alliance Theatre, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, and Centenary Stage, and developed with The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, Alley Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company, the Hermitage Artists Retreat, the Lark Play Development Center, and the Kennedy Center/ NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop. She’s been a member of the Page 73 writers' group and The Civilians’ R&D Group, and the recipient of a 2050 Fellowship, the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award, an EST/Sloan commission, and a Huntington Playwriting Fellowship. She grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and has studied history at Yale College and Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch.

Kimberly directed the Broadway premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced, which she previously directed off-Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater (LCT3), Goodman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Mark Taper Forum. Off-Broadway: The Niceties (Manhattan Theatre Club), Career Suicide (produced by Judd Apatow), Sakina's Restaurant (Audible), Discord (Primary Stages), Engagements (Second Stage), The Who and the What (LCT3). Regionally: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Milwaukee Rep); The Niceties (Huntington Theatre); Disgraced; Rapture, Blister, Burn and Support Group for Men (Goodman); Buried Child, The Scene, Marjorie Prime, The Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, The Letters (Writers); Sheltered (Alliance); Sex with Strangers (Geffen); Want and The North Plan (Steppenwolf); Other Than Honorable (Geva); among others. TV: Chris Gethard's Career Suicide (HBO). Senior is the recipient of the 2016 Special Non-Equity Jeff Award, 2016 Alan Schneider Award (TCG) and 2018 Einhorn Award (Primary Stages).

Cameron is an internationally-acclaimed scenic and projection designer, and has designed extensively at the world's leading theater and opera companies. She recently designed The Niceties at Manhattan Theater Club and Huntington Theatre Company, West Side Story for Norway’s Kilden Performing Arts Center and for The Vancouver Opera, and Simon Boccanegra for Argentina’s Teatro Colon. Selected Off-Broadway credits include: Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, New Georges, LAByrinth Theater Company, Naked Angels, Ars Nova, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Les Freres Corbusier. Regional Theater credits include: Trinity Rep, Two River Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, and Shakespeare & Company. Selected opera credits include: The Glimmerglass Festival, The Seattle Opera, The San Francisco Opera, Opera Saratoga, Central City Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, USC Thornton School of Music, OnSite Opera (NYC), Indianapolis Opera, Manhattan School of Music, Gotham Chamber Opera, Opera Boston, Pittsburgh Opera, Indiana University Opera, and The New England Conservatory. Upcoming projects include Madame Butterfly at The Pacific Symphony, Yerma at The Huntington Theatre Company, Photograph 51 at South Coast Rep, Emmeline at Opera Tulsa, and La Fille Du Regiment at Opera Saratoga. www.cameronanderson.net

Regional: The Color Purple (Portland Center Stage); Ragtime and The Mountaintop (Trinity Repertory Company); The Wiz! (Ford’s Theatre); We, the Invisibles (Actors Theatre, Humana Festival); A Raisin in the Sun (IRT, Syracuse Stage); Nina Simone: Four Women (Arena Stage); A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington Theatre); In the Heights (Geva); Native Gardens (Guthrie, Arena Stage); Barbecue (Geffen Playhouse, NAACP Best Costume Design Award); Ethel (Alliance Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Dot (Vineyard Theatre). Assistant Costume Design TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Daredevil (Netflix) Boardwalk Empire (HBO) Training: NYU Tisch.

Recent credits include 4.48 Psychosis (Prototype Festival— NYC), James Bond Symphony (Orchestre National de Lyon); Star Wars en Concert (Orchestre National Montpellier); Il barbieri di Siviglia (Boston Lyric Opera); The Niceties (MTC and Huntington Theatre Company); the world premieres of Mamzer Bastard (Royal Opera House) and 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Opera House—Olivier Award nomination for Best New Opera); Medea, Margherita, and Risurrezione (Wexford Festival Opera); La bohème (Opera di Firenze). Ms. Wood’s design for Suor Angelica (Royal Opera House) was awarded the U.K.’s 2012 Knight of Illumination for Opera. Upcoming designs include L'elisir d'amore and Les enfants terribles (Opera Omaha); Berenice (Royal Opera House); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier); and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nevill Holt Opera).

Her designs and original music have been heard at The Kennedy Center, Guthrie Theater, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Steppenwolf Theatre, Signature Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, National Gallery of Art, Soho Rep, Huntington Theatre, Denver Center, Two River Theater, Women’s Project, Triad Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, LaMaMa, 59E59, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Okeechobee Music Festival, and the Center for Puppetry Arts. Elisheba was a resident sound designer at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for the 2010 and 2011 National Playwrights Conferences, recipient of the Kenan Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and winner of the 2008 USITT Rising Star Award. Education: NYU, North Carolina School of the Arts. www.elishebaittoop.com

Alaine is also the casting director for Playwrights Horizons, where her credits include Grey Gardens (also for Broadway), Clybourne Park (also for Broadway), Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie Awards for Best Ensemble and an Artios Award for casting), and The Flick (Playwright Horizons and The Barrow Street Theater). Television credits include The Knights of Prosperity (aka Let’s Rob Mick Jagger) for ABC. Associate credits include Ed for NBC and Monk for USA. Ms. Alldaffer has also cast productions for Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others. She credits Lisa Donadio as her associate casting director.

Dixie comes to McCarter from Chicago, IL, where she worked for over 15 years. Most recently she was the Production Manager of the Wirtz Center for Performing Arts at Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, she managed dozens of productions, including the world premiers of David Catlin's Moby Dick and Laura Schellhardt's Ever in the Glades, a production which then travelled to the Kennedy Center. Before Northwestern, Uffelman was the Associate Production Manager of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Production Manager of the House Theatre of Chicago, and the Program Director of Barrel of Monkeys.

Debbie joined McCarter in 2016. Her experience spans Broad­way, off-Broadway, West End, regional, and non-profit theater. Broadway: Mothers & Sons, Grace, Annie, War Horse, Hair, The Merchant of Venice, Speed the Plow. Off-Broadway and London: Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly starring Carey Mulligan, Passion Play, Merrily We Roll Along. Chicago: Founder of Roadworks Productions, with residencies at Steppenwolf & Victory Gardens. Highlights: John Barth’s The End of the Road, Lanford Wilson’s Serenading Louie, Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth, Chuck Mee’s Orestes, Eric Bogosian’s subUrbia. She is an Advisory Member of Playwrights Realm in NYC and on the board of FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics). Debbie lives with her husband David Goldman and dedicates this season to the memory of their sweet, loving Stella.

Emily is in her 29th season as Artistic Director and Resident Play-wright. Her nearly 50 McCarter directing credits include pro­ductions by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, and Williams and the recent world premieres of Turning Off the Morning News; Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express; Baby Doll; Five Mile Lake; The Convert; The How and the Why; Miss Witherspoon; and Me, Myself & I. Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, Anna in the Tropics, Execution of Justice, Having Our Say. Her plays: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard, and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Her new play Gloria: A Life about the legacy of Gloria Steinem is currently running in New York. Adaptations: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, Antigone; and The Pianist. Awards: Peabody, Hull Warriner, NAACP, Obies, Guggenheim; Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations, a Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts, a Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award, and the Margo Jones Award given to a “citizen-of-the-theater who has demonstrated a lifetime commit­ment to the encouragement of the living theater everywhere.”

Michael is in his first season at McCarter. For the last nine years, he was the Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego where he helped develop and produce new work by Ayad Akhtar, Trey Anastasio, Amanda Green, Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegría Hudes, John Leguizamo, Basil Twist, Doug Wright, and The Flaming Lips. During his tenure, the Playhouse was awarded multi-million dollar grants from the NEA and the Wallace and Irvine Foundations to accelerate experiments meant to develop multi-ethnic projects, expand opportunities for family engagement and build the capacity to sustain community arts programs in off-site locations. Previously, Mike was Co-Founder and Executive Director of Drama Dept., a New York non-profit theater collective, where for fourteen years he produced new works by the likes of Douglas Carter Beane, Warren Leight, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Rudnick, and David & Amy Sedaris. He is also the Assistant Coach for the U13 Ironmen FC. Follow him on Twitter @MrMike Rosenberg.

The Huntington Theatre Company is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets since its founding in 1982. Recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the Huntington brings together superb local and national talent and produces a mix of ground­breaking new works and classics made current to create award-winning productions. The Huntington runs nationally renowned programs in education and new play development and serves the local theatre community through its operation of the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. The Huntington has long been an anchor cultural institution of Huntington Avenue, the Avenue of the Arts. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso, the Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form. For more information, visit huntingtontheatre.org.

Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country’s most prominent theatre companies. Productions at its Broadway and Off-Broadway venues have earned numerous awards including 23 Tony Awards® and 7 Pulitzer Prizes to date. MTC’s World, Broadway and New York premieres have included Cost of Living, August Wilson’s Jitney, Constellations, Casa Valentina, The Assembled Parties, Murder Ballad, Venus in Fur, Good People, The Whipping Man, Ruined, Blackbird, The Explorer’s Club, The Columnist, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion! and Ain’t Misbehavin’. This season on Broadway, MTC presents The Nap, Choir Boy, and INK.