“The Realistic Joneses” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
www.concordtheatricals.com
Original Broadway Production Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Stacey Mindich, Susan Gallin, Mary Lu Roffe, Andy Sandberg, Scott M. Delman, William Berlind, Caiola Productions
CandyWendyJamie Productions, Amy Danis & Mark Johannes, Finn Moellenberg Productions
Angelina Fiordellisi, Jay Franke, Gesso Productions, Grimaldi Astrachan Hello Entertainment
Meg Herman, Mara Smigel Rutter Productions, KM-R&D, Will Trice
In association with Yale Repertory Theatre
“The Realistic Joneses” was commissioned by and premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre
James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director
www.concordtheatricals.com
Original Broadway Production Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Stacey Mindich, Susan Gallin, Mary Lu Roffe, Andy Sandberg, Scott M. Delman, William Berlind, Caiola Productions
CandyWendyJamie Productions, Amy Danis & Mark Johannes, Finn Moellenberg Productions
Angelina Fiordellisi, Jay Franke, Gesso Productions, Grimaldi Astrachan Hello Entertainment
Meg Herman, Mara Smigel Rutter Productions, KM-R&D, Will Trice
In association with Yale Repertory Theatre
“The Realistic Joneses” was commissioned by and premiered at Yale Repertory Theatre
James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director
Playwright - Will Eno
Director - Stephanie Stroud
Assistant Director - Jack Cobabe
Stage Manager - Nicole Lopez^
Set Designer - Jonah Kirkhart
Lighting Designer - Riley Merrill
Sound Design - Lil Poppet Productions
Props Design - Lil Poppet Productions, Nicole Lopez
^Member, Wasatch Theatre Company Ensemble
Special Thanks: Westminster University, Salt Lake County Arts and Culture, staff at Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, Zoo Arts and Parks Initiative
Cast
Bob Jones - Jeffrey Owen
Jennifer Jones - Tiffani DiGregorio
John Jones - Bryce Lloyd Fueston
Pony Jones - Sophia Van Nederveen
WTC Board of Directors
Sharon Daurelle
Jim Martin
Philip Vernon
Director - Stephanie Stroud
Assistant Director - Jack Cobabe
Stage Manager - Nicole Lopez^
Set Designer - Jonah Kirkhart
Lighting Designer - Riley Merrill
Sound Design - Lil Poppet Productions
Props Design - Lil Poppet Productions, Nicole Lopez
^Member, Wasatch Theatre Company Ensemble
Special Thanks: Westminster University, Salt Lake County Arts and Culture, staff at Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center, Zoo Arts and Parks Initiative
Cast
Bob Jones - Jeffrey Owen
Jennifer Jones - Tiffani DiGregorio
John Jones - Bryce Lloyd Fueston
Pony Jones - Sophia Van Nederveen
WTC Board of Directors
Sharon Daurelle
Jim Martin
Philip Vernon
Jack Cobabe is a director and actor based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Recent directing credits include assistant directing The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey with Voodoo Theatre Company, as will as directing an original adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae with the Classical Greek Theatre Festival. Recent acting credits include Gross Indecency (Alfred Douglas) with Wasatch Theatre, Helen (Theoclymenus) with the Classical Greek Theatre Festival, as well as God of Carnage (Michael) and Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein) at Westminster College. He received his BFA in Theatre Performance from Westminster College.
TIFFANI DIGREGORIO--Utah theater credits include Savage Resources with Immigrant’s Daughter (2023 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival award winner), Mountain Meadows with Pygmalion (named The Utah Review Top Moment in 2023), Pilot Program with Sackerson, and Gidion’s Knot with Pinnacle Acting Company. West coast theater credits include This Is Our Youth with James Franco, The Crucible, Hedda Gabler, A Doll’s House, Baby with the Bathwater, and The Dining Room. Additionally, she can be seen in countless national and regional commercials, a couple of failed pilots, a Netflix streamer here and there, indies and shorts buzzing through the festival circuit, and features directed by Rob Reiner, Steven Soderbergh, and Jared Hess. Tiffani studied drama at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and was a member of Playhouse West in Los Angeles for 10 years.
[from the Concord Theatricals website] Playwright Will Eno recently completed the Residency Five Fellowship at the Signature Theatre, which premiered his play Title and Deed in 2012, The Open House in 2014, and Wakey, Wakey in 2017. Will’s play The Underlying Chris premiered at 2nd Stage Theatre in October 2019, directed by Kenny Leon, and The Plot premiered at Yale Repertory in November 2019, directed by Oliver Butler. The Realistic Joneses appeared on Broadway in 2014, where it won a Drama Desk Award, was named USA Today’s “Best Play on Broadway,” topped the The Guardian’s 2014 list of American plays, and was included in The New York Times’ “Best Theatre of 2014.” The play was recently included in “25 Significant Plays of the last 25 Years,” in The New York Times. The French premiere, Juste Les Jones, will be directed for the Paris stage by documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
The Open House won the 2014 Obie Award, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Drama Desk Award, and was included in both the Time Out New York and Time Magazine Top 10 Plays of the Year. Title and Deed was on The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine’s Top Ten Plays of 2012. Middletown, winner of the 2011 Horton Foote Award, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre and subsequently at Steppenwolf Theater and many other American Theaters and universities. The Canadian premiere, at The Shaw Festival in 2017, received a rapturous response from critics and audiences and was remounted in 2018 in Toronto.
Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. It was performed by Michael C. Hall in a sold-out revival at the Signature Theater in the fall of 2018. The L.A. premiere was performed by Rainn Wilson at the Geffen Playhouse in 2016, and a film was made from those performances, directed by Will and Oliver Butler. In spring 2019, Will wrote the book for the hugely successful ad campaign Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical, which also starred Michael C. Hall.
The Open House won the 2014 Obie Award, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Drama Desk Award, and was included in both the Time Out New York and Time Magazine Top 10 Plays of the Year. Title and Deed was on The New York Times and The New Yorker magazine’s Top Ten Plays of 2012. Middletown, winner of the 2011 Horton Foote Award, premiered at the Vineyard Theatre and subsequently at Steppenwolf Theater and many other American Theaters and universities. The Canadian premiere, at The Shaw Festival in 2017, received a rapturous response from critics and audiences and was remounted in 2018 in Toronto.
Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. It was performed by Michael C. Hall in a sold-out revival at the Signature Theater in the fall of 2018. The L.A. premiere was performed by Rainn Wilson at the Geffen Playhouse in 2016, and a film was made from those performances, directed by Will and Oliver Butler. In spring 2019, Will wrote the book for the hugely successful ad campaign Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical, which also starred Michael C. Hall.
Bryce Lloyd Fueston is excited to be back onstage after a brief hiatus from theatre. Some of his favorite roles include Joe Pitt- Angels in America, Christopher - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Hedwig - Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Dale Harding - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Man in Chair - The Drowsy Chaperone.
Jonah Kirkhart is a writer, director, actor, designer and producer for both the stage and film. He has written full length plays, "The Tragedy of Norton the First" and "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", and a full length musical, "An American in Beirut". He has directed and produced several plays including "John", "Love and Information", "Indian Radio Days", "Life of Galileo", "A Shayna Maidel", and he has performed in several others.
Nicole Lopez--I am so thrilled to be doing my third show with Wasatch Theatre. After graduating from Southern Utah University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Theatre Arts, I have been looking for more and more opportunists to be involved in Utah's Theatre. I have been working at Jordan High School since 2022 as the Assistant Theatre Coach and have been loving working with Wasatch Theatre Company in "Short Shorts", "JQA" and now "The Realistic Joneses." I am so excited to see what I can be involved in next.
Jeffrey Owen is thrilled to be back performing with Wasatch Theatre Company. Previous Wasatch productions include (Vanya) in Vanya Sonya, Masha and Spike, Page to Stage, Ted in Ideation, and The 24 hour Theatre Festival Jeffrey also directed for Wasatch with a production of Jeffrey Hatcher's The Turn Of The Screw. Jeffrey was seen in several roles in LIT's production of The Exonerated. GSL Fringe Festival 2023 in Ariana Farber's Savage Resources .Jeffrey recently directed a production of Henry IV for New World Shakespeare. Kalisti Theatre Company productions include Kill Claudio (Verges) Tony Kushner's Angels In America parts 1&2 (Louis) andThe Open Syrup Episodes 2-6. Jeffrey has appeared in The Grand Theatre’s productions of Jekyll and Hyde The Musical as Sir Danvers Carew, Doctor Douglas in Ms. Evers’ Boys and Carousel as Jigger, Judge Taylor in To Kill A Mockingbird, and Judge Omar Gaffney in Harvey. Other favorite roles include Iago in Othello and Shylock in Merchant Of Venice (New World Shakespeare), Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly, Tom in Glass Menagerie, Roat in Wait Until Dark and Tin Man in The Wizard Of Oz (Egyptian Theatre Company) Herb in I Ought To Be In Pictures ( Utah Theatre Artists Company),Carmichael in A Behanding In Spokane( Hive Theatre) Jeffrey is a graduate of The Actor Training Program at the University Of Utah and has BFA in Theatre. Enjoy!
Stephanie Stroud (Director) is a director/actor/educator living in Salt Lake City. Previous Salt Lake directing credits include Medea (The Classical Greek Theatre Festival), Small Box with a Revolver (The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival) and Dreamers (Immigrant's Daughter), Worship (Immigrant's Daughter), and the upcoming In Your Dreams (Sackerson). Stephanie is a recent transplant from Chicago were she was a founding member of Mortar Theater Company (Casting Director and Movement Director). Stephanie has worked with such Chicago companies as Mortar Theater Company, Saltbox Collective, Pegasus Players, Chicago Dramatists, Something Marvelous, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Profiles, and Second City. Stephanie is a member of Actors Equity Association, Stage Directors and Choreographers, and an alum of Lincoln Center Director's Lab. stephaniestroud.com
Sophia Van Nederveen is a local actor with a passion for the absurd. She is a graduate of Westminster University studying Criminal Justice & Theatre. Her most recent roles include Veronica in God of Carnage (Dir. Jason Bowcutt) , Svetlana in Dreamers (Dir. Stephanie Stroud), and Damsel in Cartoon (Dir. Stephanie Stroud). Whether dawning full clown attire, or lacing a corset, every role is a new adventure. She is thrilled to be stepping on stage again for this production, exploring loneliness, connection, and all the words between.
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