T H E S E E I N G P L A C E T H E A T E R P R E S E N T S

Presented by The Seeing Place Theater

October 31-November 7, 2020

B E N E F I T I N G : R E P R O D U C T I V E H E A L T H S E R V I C E S

O F P L A N N E D P A R E N T H O O D

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page 3) About Our Production of KEELY AND DU

Pages 4-6) Cast and Creative Team Bios

Page 6) KEELY AND DU Synopsis

Page 7) The History Surrounding the Play

Page 8) About the Playwright, Jane Martin

Page 9) About our Beneficiary, Reproductive Health Services

Page 10) Free Panel Discussion

Page 11) Coming Up for The Seeing Place

Page 12) TSP's Ensemble and Donors

Page 13) How To Support The Seeing Place

"I don't want to get used to talking to you.” - Keely in KEELY AND DU

CAST (in order of appearance):

Du..........................................................................Audrey Heffernan MeyerWalter....................................................................Brandon WalkerKeely......................................................................Erin CronicanCole........................................................................Robin FriendGuard.....................................................................Olivia Hanna HardinNarrator.................................................................Dan Mack

CREATIVE TEAM:

Playwright...............................................................Jane MartinCo-Directors............................................................Brandon Walker and Erin CronicanStage Management...................................................Dan MackHouse Management.................................................Robin Friend Producers................................................................Erin Cronican and Brandon WalkerAssociate Producer - Outreach..................................William KetterGraphic Design........................................................Erin Cronican, Hailey VestSocial Media Outreach.............................................Weronika Helena WozniakVideo Design...........................................................Laura Clare BrowneMarketing Support...................................................Robin FriendDramaturgy & Program............................................Erin Cronican, Olivia Hanna Hardin

SETTING AND RUN TIME:

Setting: Providence, Rhode Island. The time is NOW.

Running Time - 2 hourswith a short talkback with the cast & creative team following each reading.

KEELY AND DU is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions through Theatre Authority,Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program:

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTSAMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS

SAG-AFTRA

ABOUT KEELY AND DU

Erin Cronican (she/her; Keely & Co-Director) is an award-winning actor, producer and director who is based in New YorkCity. She is a founding member of The Seeing Place Theater andhas served as its Executive Artistic Director since 2011. She is anNYIT nominated actor for her work in TSP’s The Maids. OffBroadway: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea; Sistas; This One’s ForThe Girls. Favorite roles with TSP: Dutchman (Lula); My Nameis Rachel Corrie (Rachel) Othello (Desdemona); Closer (Anna);Getting Out (Arlene); Boy Gets Girl (Theresa); A Lie of the Mind(Beth); The Laramie Project (Mercedes Herrero Track) Regionalfavorites: The Last Five Years; Angels in America; Camelot;South Pacific; Evita. Erin spends much of her spare time as anactivist for causes that mean a lot to her, particularly those thatsupport the LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and Disabled communities. Assomeone in a queer romantic relationship, along with havingmany LGTBQIA+ family members and friends, Erin is thrilled tobe spotlighting this underrepresented community withShakespeare’s beautiful text.

Olivia Hanna Hardin (she/her; Guard) is a proud part of theLGBTQAI+ community, is from the Mule Capital of the World,Columbia, TN. She’s studied at the University of Texas in Austinwhere she spent time filming, acting, and starting her ownBurlesque troope, the Jigglewatts. She then studied with theMoscow Art Theater in Boston and Moscow and eventually gother MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School in NYC. Herfavorite roles have been May in Fool for Love, Inez in No Exitand the Succubus/La Condesa in The Vampire Lesbians ofSodom. Although that said she falls in love with every charactershe plays. She feels extremely lucky as an Ensemble Member ofThe Seeing Place that they accept her even with her uncurable,rare and underfunded disability, CRPS, a severe disease thatattacks primarily the nervous system as well as muscle, and softissue in certain areas of the body. But The Seeing Placewelcomes her with open arms and adapts to her needs regularly.She dreams of not stardom or fame, she dreams of roles andprojects she is passionate about and feels an undeniable senseof love, projects with people who love what they do as much asshe loves what she does.

CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM BIOS

Robin Friend (he/him; Cole) This is Robin’s fifth season withThe Seeing Place Theater. You may have seen him in GettingOut, Macbeth, Cloud Nine, and/or in last season’s production ofMeasure for Measure. In addition to acting Robin alsomoonlights as a gymnast/circus performer. He’s flipped offrooftops for Nintendo, climbed scaffolds for Tommy Hilfiger,and rappelled from ceilings (in full alien garb) for TruTV. Ifyou’re into Web Series you can also catch him in the awardladen ‘The Honey Trapper’ (season 2 coming soon).

Audrey Heffernan Meyer (she/her; Du) is thrilled to be workingfor the first time with The Seeing Place, portraying Du in thisprovocative and timely piece. This summer, Audrey wrote anddebuted her solo show, “Nick of Time,” an outdoor concertfeaturing the songs of female songwriters from the 60’s and 70’s,and will soon be bringing it to NYC when theatres re-open.Audrey recently led the cast of four women in the Off-BroadwayMusical This One’s for The Girls. She also starred Off-Broadwayin Joe Godfrey’s three- character play Romance Language at ArsNova, and in From Silence, (the memoir of Holocaust survivorJudith Sherman), at Folksbiene Theatre and Theatre for the NewCity. She also worked with Antonio Banderas and Chita Rivera inthe Broadway Workshop of Zorba! Other New Yorkmusicals/operas: Merrily We Roll Along, Grand Hotel, Oliver,Gondoliers, The Sorcerer, Magic Flute, Carmen, OrpheusDescending, Pagliacci, etc. Regional Theatre: Lead roles inDamn Yankees, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Guys & Dolls,Carousel, Fiddler on the Roof, Tintypes, etc. TV and Film:Recurring and co-star roles on The Blacklist, The MarvelousMrs. Maisel, Blue Bloods, Billions, Royal Pains, The EnemyWithin, Did You Hear about the Morgans, The Pilot: Y The LastMan, (on FX), etc. Thanks to acting coaches Austin Pendleton, F.Murray Abraham, William Esper, Andrea Cirie. Voice: BobMarks, Andrew Byrne, Patsy Rodenberg. Grateful to myhusband and 4 children for all their love and support.

Brandon Walker* (they/them; Walter & Co-Director) is amixed-race and gender-fluid Actor, Director, Playwright,Teacher, and has been the Producing Artistic Director of TheSeeing Place Theater for the last eleven years. Previous directingcredits for The Seeing Place include: Animal Farm, Cloud 9, TheLaramie Project, Othello, Rhinoceros, Boy Gets Girl, andWaiting for Lefty. Acting credits with The Seeing Place include: IAm My Own Wife, Hamlet, and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea(Off-Bway, NYIT Nominated). Plays written include: AnimalFarm, The Hysteria of Dr Faustus, The People vs Antigone,Scotch Kiss, and When We Have Gone Astray.

Dan Mack (he/him; Stage Manager) co-founded Theater ofOthers in San Francisco. He studied improvisation at iOChicago.

KEELY AND DU SYNOPSISCONTENT WARNING: This play deals seriously with the topics of abortion, sexual assault,and kidnapping. There is some described violence that may be triggering for someaudiences.

Jane Martin’s emotional one act drama KEELY AND DU is a mind-probing issue play with agripping human face. It chronicles the fate of Keely from the last preparations for herimprisonment through her eventual release. Set almost exclusively in a sparsely furnishedbasement that has been converted into a prison, the play focuses on Keely’s developing andchanging relationship with her adversary Du, the fundamentalist Christian who guards herto prevent her from terminating her unwanted pregnancy. Who is accountable? What isthe extent of individual freedom? What are a rape victim’s rights? What are a Christian’srealities of procreation? Their passionate stories exist on the extreme edge of everydayreality.

The late 1980s and early 1990s were a tumultuous time for women's reproductive rights.Here are some historical facts which may have influenced the writing of the play:

Through the 1980s the legalization of abortion had become a divisive and intenselyemotional issue; both anti and pro-choice organizations strengthened their politicalinfluence. By 1992, 12 years of a Republican rule White House had weakened abortionrights.

In 1992, in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, the court reaffirms Roe v Wade's core holdingthat States may not ban abortions or interfere with a woman's decision to have an abortion.The court does uphold mandatory 24 hour waiting period and parental consent laws.

On April 5, 1992 there was a march in support of abortion rights that drew hundreds ofthousands of people in Washington DC that came as a result of the Supreme Courtconsidering the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that limited access to abortions.

When Bill Clinton entered the office in 1993, within days of taking office he overturnedseveral key pieces of the anti-abortion executive legislation that had been signed by hisRepublican predecessors Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

Since 1993, at least 11 people have been killed in attacks on abortion clinics in theUnited States. Here are just a few:

In 1993, Abortion protester Michael Griffen shoots Dr. David Gunn outside a clinic inPensacola, FL during a March demonstration.

In July 1994, Dr. John Bayard Britton and bodyguards are slain outside a Pensacola clinic inby former minister Paul J. Hill. Hill is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

In December 1994, John C Salvi III walks into two Boston-area abortion clinics with a rifleand open fires, killing 2 receptionists and wounding 5 others. He is sentenced to life inprison without parole but ends up killing himself in prison in 1996.

George Tiller, who was shot once before in 1993, is killed in 2009 by Scott Roeder, who issentenced to life in prison.

In Colorado Springs in 2015, 3 people were killed and 9 people wounded when RobertLewis Dear Jr opened fire in a Planned Parenthood clinic. He was deemed incompetent tostand trial and has been in a Colorado State mental hospital ever since.

THE HISTORY SURROUNDING THE PLAY

A big question on the minds of many theater scholars is:WHO IS JANE MARTIN?

What we do know is that "Jane Martin" is a closely guarded and much speculated ‘penname’ for the playwright of such works as TALKING WITH (1982), VITAL SIGNS (1990), andANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS (2000). Here are some of the rumors about Jane's work andidentity:

- Many suspect "Jane" is Jon Jory, the first to direct KEELY AND DU in its debut in theHumana Festival of New American Plays in March of 1993 in Louisville, KY. Jon Jory mayhave taken the pen name Jane Martin to get more in touch with his feminine side. Two ofJane's full-lengths, TALKING WITH and VITAL SIGNS, are essentially a series ofmonologues by female characters, while KEELY AND DU and MR. BUNDY deals withabortion and a child molester moving into a neighborhood of particular interest to women.Some critics speculate he was working alongside his wife, Marcia Dixon Jory, on the MartinPlays.

- Jane also wrote plays dealing with the seedy conditions for female wrestlers, governmentspying on citizens they believe to be dissidents. A common thread of her plays is that theyare always thought-provoking.

- Jane was the most-produced playwright of Louisville’s Festival of New American playswith 10 full-length plays performed between 1982 – 2001. Martin has also written 6 one-acts, and several shorter plays that have been performed on the Actors Theatre stage andelsewhere.

Jane Martin's Official Bio from Concord Theatricals

Jane Martin, a Kentuckian, first came to national attention for Talking With, a collection ofmonologues premiering in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 1982 Humana Festival of NewAmerican Plays. Since its New York premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1982, TalkingWith has been performed around the world, winning the Best Foreign Play of the YearAward in Germany from Theatre Heute magazine. Her other work includes: Vital Signs,Cementville, Keely And Du (Pulitzer Prize nominee; 1994 American Theatre CriticsAssociation Best New Play Award), Jack And Jill (1997 American Theatre Critics AssociationBest New Play Award), Anton In Show Business (2001 American Theatre Critics/SteinbergPrincipal Citation), Mr. Bundy, and Flaming Guns Of The Purple Sage. Good Boyspremiered at Guthrie Theater in 2002. Flags was co-produced by Guthrie Theater andMixed Blood in 2004, and her most recent work, Sez She, premiered at Illusion Theatre inApril 2006.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT, JANE MARTIN

On June 13, 1932, 23 pioneers in the fight to secure reproductive rights signed the Articlesof Association of the Maternal Health Association of Missouri, now known as PlannedParenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri

The mission of RHS is to provide, protect and support reproductive and sexual health,services, access and rights. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and SouthwestMissouri has been the leading provider, educator and protector of reproductive health carein St. Louis and Southwest Missouri for over 85 years.

Some important facts about RHS's work:

• Missouri is already facing a post-Roe reality. Reproductive Health Services is the lastremaining abortion provider in Missouri, and 78 percent of Missouri women live incounties with no abortion clinic. For decades, the anti-abortion movement has been laserfocused on one thing: enacting restrictions on abortion that make it almost impossible forpatients to get care, and forcing health centers to close. A decade ago, Missouri had fiveabortion providers. Today, there is one. RHS and Missouri are the frontline for protectingabortion.

• Though the challenges to providing abortion care in Missouri continues to rise, RHS andits chief medical officer, Dr. McNicholas, are unwavering in our commitment to providingcare to patients who need us.

• "This is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. It's a decision that she mustmake for herself. And when government controls that decision for her, she's being treatedas less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• “RHS will continue the work of ensuring that every patient who needs and wants anabortion is able to access that care with dignity and respect — and consistent with theirvalues in spite of the impossible landscape. In my exam room, abortion is not political; it’ssimply health care. It’s time we listen to the majority of Americans: put an end to thisrampant abuse of power and do what is necessary to keep abortion safe, legal, andaccessible.” - Dr. Colleen McNicholas

ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES

Date/Time:Thursday, November 5, 2020 (7pm Eastern Time, via Zoom) Speaker:Dr. Colleen McNicholas, DO MSCI, FACOG Chief Medical Officer - Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri Theme:Action Steps for Protecting Women's Choices This talkback will enable audience members to hear community experts talk about thethemes of the play and how they relate to our immediate situation in the world. We willalso be brainstoming on ways that YOU can make a difference. Right now, our #1recommendation to VOTE (create your plan now for a smooth experience.)

FREE PANEL DISCUSSION

2020-2021 SEASON

TBA - December 2020 This TSP Ripple For Change reading will likely be centered around National Human RightsDay with a related play.

WIT by Margaret Edson – 2021 (dates TBA)A mainstage production of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a woman who isdiagnosed with Stage IV cancer and the trials and tribulations of going throughexperimental treatments to provide breakthroughs for science.

BOY by Anna Ziegler – 2021 (dates TBA)A mainstage production of this play - based on a true story - about a boy who suffers from asurgical accident to his genitals, and to cope with the trauma his family (with the guidanceof a world-renowned psychologist) opts to raise him as a girl.

More Readings TBA! To learn more: www.seeingplacetheater.com/season.html

THE SEEING PLACE'S EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM

Like most theater across the country, The Seeing Place had to shut its doors when theCOVID-19 pandemic took hold on New York City. Gathering together in groups is aprerequisite for live theatre, so we have canceled or postponed our in-person productionsand events. The well-being of our audience, artists, and team is our first priority.

To continue our work and passion at TSP and continue bringing our mission to NewYorkers, we have come up with exciting ways to entertain and educate you remotely - allfrom the comfort of your own home. We've created two online series: our ProfessionalEducation Program and TSP Insiders Program to serve both Professional Artists andTheater Lovers, alike.

To learn more about this program, please visit www.seeingplacetheater.com/training.html

COMING UP FOR THE SEEING PLACE

PRODUCING STAFFProducing Artistic Director:   Brandon Walker Executive Artistic Director:    Erin Cronican

ENSEMBLE MEMBERSLaura Clare Browne, Robin Friend, Olivia Hardin, William Ketter, Jon L Peacock, HaileyVest, Weronika Helena Wozniak.

Special Thanks to Our Season 10 Donors

TSP REVOLUTIONARIESKelley Elizabeth Henry, Dr Judy Page, Tere Petersen

$2000-$5000+The Ravenal FoundationThe Taproot Foundation

Erin Cronican

$500-$1999The Indie Theatre FundThe Lambs Foundation

Nina Abrams FundWork-Bench

Richard Eisenberg, Kelley Elizabeth Henry, Jeff Krasner, Tere Petersen, Don Scardino,Brandon Walker, Russ Wollman, and 3 Anonymous Donors

$100-$499Celia Berk, Peter Biegel, Lisa Cronican, Darryl Curry, Joan Friend, Lisa Friend, BarbaraHaas, Lee Lampard Stone, Dan Mack, Lisa-Marie Newton, Dr Judy Page, David Perlman,

George Reed, Jill Reiter, Mikael Sodersten and Cornelia Ravenal, Phil Tillotson, JeanBurton Walker, plus 2 Anonymous Donors

$1-$99Meg Anderson, Kirsten Brandt, Tom Brophy, James Browne, Susan Browne, Linda Castro,Michael Cedar, Gamze Ceylan, Casey Clark, Michael Colby, Anita Cooper, Susan DeLeon,Ellinor DiLorenzo, Tiffany Draughn, Symon Edmonds, David Ellenstein, Elizabeth Haas,Jason Heil, Haley Horbinski, Martha Garvey, Michael Gnat, Shamiko Hails, Janice Hall,

Juke Bar NYC, Anna Kaltenbach, Beau Karch, Micky Kerwick, Mary Lahti, SteveLichtenstein & Jill Geier, Thomas Lopez, Ruth Luchey Toliver, Steve Mannshardt, ArnonManor, Edward Marczak, Lara Mcdavit, Dorothy Mcfadden-Parker, Colin McReynolds,Brianna Morrison, Marissa Mutascio, Emily Nassberg, Lindsey Naves, Noelle Nichols,Ashley Pickens, Ann Raiten, Ken Raboy, Anthony Richards, Amanda Rinnert, William

Schweigert, Jayne Sherman, Judd Silverman, Pamela Stevens, Evelyn Thatcher, MitchellWeisburgh, Cheri Wicks, Shannon Wyant, Joanne Zipay, Suzanne Zuckerman

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