Miles for Mary
- Created by The Mad Ones
- Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Founded in 2009, The Mad Ones are a New York City-based company dedicated to creating visceral, ensemble-driven, highly detailed theatrical experiences that examine and illuminate American nostalgia. We devise plays through the ongoing collaboration of performers/writers, designers, and director, with each artist playing an essential role in a piece’s creation from the inception. Our productions appropriate popular American genres, playfully re-imagine world history, and incorporate live music in service of a delicately woven, wholly articulated, character-driven universe. The Mad Ones are Co-Artistic Directors Marc Bovino (performer/writer), Joe Curnutte (performer/writer), Lila Neugebauer (director/writer), Stephanie Wright Thompson (performer/writer); Company Members Michael Dalto (performer/music director/marketing director), Ásta Bennie Hostetter (costume designer), Mike Inwood (lighting designer), Laura Jellinek (set designer), Sarah Lunnie (dramaturg), and Stowe Nelson (sound designer). The Mad Ones are currently the Company-in-Residence at Ars Nova.
Playwrights debut. Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Award winner. Recent directing: Annie Baker’s The Antipodes; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody; Albee’s The Sandbox, Fornes’ Drowning, and Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro (as an evening, Signature Plays); A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn (all at Signature Theatre); Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves (The Playwrights Realm, NY Stage & Film, and upcoming at Lincoln Center); Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor (LCT3); Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention (Williamstown); Amy Herzog’s After The Revolution, 4000 Miles (Baltimore Center Stage); Zoe Kazan’s Trudy and Max in Love, Eliza Clark’s Future Thinking (South Coast Rep); Lucas Hnath’s Red Speedo (Studio Theatre); Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker (Berkeley Rep); Partners, O Guru Guru Guru (Humana Festival); Annie Baker’s The Aliens (SF Playhouse, Studio Theatre). With The Mad Ones: Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War, The Essential Straight and Narrow, and Inspector Pennywhistle. Upcoming: Zoe Kazan’s After The Blast (LCT3), Albee’s At Home at the Zoo (Signature Theatre), Lily Thorne’s Peace For Mary Frances (The New Group), and Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage).
It’s 1988 and the planning committee for Garrison High School’s ninth annual Miles For Mary Telethon is fired up and ready to go. Across subcommittee sessions in the Phys Ed teachers’ lounge, The Mad Ones assemble an analog elegy to the camcorder 1980s, Girls Track and Field, and the consecrated American High School.
Featuring
Marc Bovino
Ken Wyckoff
Joe Curnutte
Rod Dietrich
Michael Dalto
David Eagan
Amy Staats
Brenda Zadakian
Stephanie Wright Thompson
Sandra Bulkman
Stacey Yen
Julie Wyckoff-Barnes
Playwrights debut. With The Mad Ones: Miles for Mary (The Bushwick Starr), The Essential Straight & Narrow (New Ohio Theatre), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (New Ohio Theatre, The Brick, Ars Nova), The Tremendous Tremendous (The Brick), and Inspector Pennywhistle and the Nefarious Case of the Sweet Shop Murder (Clubbed Thumb, SummerWorks Hot Dish). New York: Be The Death of Me (The Civilians, Irondale Center) Trade Practices, Lush Valley, Rus(h) (HERE). Regional: A Christmas Carol, Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Uncle Sam’s Satiric Spectacular (Humana Festival), A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage).
Playwrights debut. With The Mad Ones: Miles for Mary (The Bushwick Starr), The Essential Straight & Narrow (The New Ohio), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (New Ohio Theatre, The Brick, Ars Nova), The Tremendous Tremendous (The Brick), and Inspector Pennywhistle and the Nefarious Case of the Sweet Shop Murder (Clubbed Thumb, SummerWorks Hot Dish). Also a writer/actor of Unnatural Acts: Harvard’s Secret Court of 1920 (CSC, multiple Drama Desk nominee). Regional: Two Men of Florence (Huntington), Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville). TV: The Get Down (Netflix), American Odyssey (NBC), Person of Interest (CBS), The Story of Vice (NatGeo), I Just Want My Pants Back (MTV), As the World Turns (CBS), All My Children (ABC). Featured in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V.
Playwrights debut. With The Mad Ones: The Essential Straight & Narrow (The New Ohio Theatre) Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (New Ohio Theatre, The Brick, Ars Nova), The Tremendous Tremendous (The Brick). Regional: Pride and Prejudice and Shipwrecked! The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Brink! (Humana Festival 2009), Man of La Mancha and A Christmas Carol (Virginia Stage Co.), Lemony Snickett’s The Composer is Dead (Virginia Symphony Orchestra). BA in Religious Studies, Rollins College; previously a member of the 2008/09 Apprentice Co. of Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Playwrights debut. Select plays include Eddie and Dave (developed at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and SPACE On Ryder Farm with Margot Bordelon and Megan Hill), Hands (Naked Angel’s First Mondays), and Throws of Love (Samuel French Festival, winner). As an actor, favorite productions include The Last Class: A Jazzercise Play (Dodo Theater Collective) and Trevor (Lesser America). Select writing awards include: Atlantic Theater Launch Commission: 2016-2017, Best Script, LA Comedy Shorts. She is a founding member of Dodo Theater Collective and is thrilled to be working with The Mad Ones.
Playwrights debut. The Mad Ones: Miles for Mary, The Essential Straight & Narrow, Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War, The Tremendous Tremendous. Other credits: The Messenger (Clubbed Thumb), The Subtle Body (59E59), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Playwrights Realm), Mission Drift (The TEAM), Habit (PS122), The Bird and the Two-Ton Weight (EST), 1Rove (The Bushwick Starr), Tigers Be Still (Partly Cloudy People), Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13P), Michael and Edie (Greenpoint Division). Regional: Six Years and Neon Mirage (Humana Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors Theatre of Louisville), tempOdyssey (New Jersey Repertory Theater).
Playwrights debut. Recently performed in Annie Baker's John at ACT, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, and Miles for Mary with The Mad Ones at the Bushwick Starr. In NYC, she has appeared in new work for Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, Fault Line Theatre, The Play Company, The Public Theater, Slant Theatre Company, and Under the Radar Festival. Regional highlights include the world premiere of A Confederacy of Dunces at the Huntington Theater Company with Nick Offerman and Mary Zimmerman's Arabian Nights at Berkeley Rep, Lookingglass Theater, and Arena Stage. Regionally, she has worked at the Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the Williamstown Theater Festival. Internationally she has performed at the Kings Theater (Scotland) and The Esplanade (Singapore). TV: Elementary, Madame Secretary, Treme, The Blacklist, High Maintenance, Gossip Girl, Unforgettable, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, CSI:NY among others. Education: Brown University, NYU Grad Acting.
Creative Team
Amy Rubin
Scenic DesignÁsta Bennie Hostetter
Costume DesignMike Inwood
Lighting DesignStowe Nelson
Sound DesignJohn C. Moore
Production Stage ManagerRecent Credits: Cyrano (The New Group); Octet (Signature); Thom Pain(based on nothing) (Signature); Gloria: A life (Daryl Roth Theatre); Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons); Acquanetta (Prototype/Bard Summerscape).
I am proud to have designed the world premieres of many new plays including:
Infinite Life, John, Usual Girls, Dance Nation, Porto, The Wolves, Men on Boats, 10 out of 12 and You Got Older.
Opera: Recent projects include world premiere of 10 Days in a Madhouse dir. Joanna Settle, and numerous student productions with the New School and the Curtis Institute.
I am mad for the Classics, including my work on Taming of the Shrew dir. Shana Cooper and Dom Juan dir. Ashley Tata. I enjoy the scale of emotion and freedom available when working in the canon.
Mike Inwood is an Emmy Award-winning lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance, installations, and television. Past projects include productions with Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, The Arden, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Opera Philadelphia, Macy’s, BAM, and the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
Stowe Nelson is a sound designer based in New York. New York: queens, The Wolves (Lincoln Center Theater); Miles for Mary, The Essential Straight & Narrow, Samuel & Alasdair (Drama Desk nomination, The Mad Ones); Small Mouth Sounds (Lortel Nomination, Ars Nova); Animal Wisdom (Bushwick Starr); The Skin of Our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience); Indian Summer (Playwrights Horizons); The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre); Buyer & Cellar (Barrow Street Theatre). Regional: Evocations to Visible Appearance, Marginal Loss, I Now Pronounce (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Lost Laughs (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); The Roommate (Williamstown Theatre Festival); What Would Crazy Horse Do? (Kansas City Repertory Tehatre); Future Thinking (South Coast Repertory). www.wingspace.com/stowe
Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Strange Loop, Pass Over. Select Off-Broadway: Fefu and Her Friends, We're gonna die (2nd Stage), Tambo and Bones, A Strange Loop
A master class in passive aggression and a priceless portrait of accumulating anger in the workplace with a first-rate cast. So funny and unexpectedly touching!
Pure delight and radiating pleasure! Your troubles lift from your shoulders while you’re watching Miles for Mary. Go now, go now. Don’t dare dream it’s over.
Miles for Mary was previously produced by The Mad Ones at the Bushwick Starr in October 2016. This return engagement is part of our newly-launched Redux Series — an initiative to join forces with kindred theater companies and remount their productions on our stages for a wider audience.
