Ella Dershowitz

Off-Broadway/NYC: CONNECTED (59E59), INTIMACY (The New Group), CARD AND GIFT (Clubbed Thumb), ON THE VERGE (Attic Theater), A SPLINTERED SOUL (Theater Three).  Regional: 4,000 MILES and YOU WILL REMEMBER ME (Hudson Stage), VISITORS and THE SCREENWRITER’S DAUGHTER (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse), TWELFTH NIGHT (Payomet).  TV/Film: “Phil Spector” (HBO), “The Affair” (Showtime), “Lie to Me” (Fox), Knife Fight, Two-Bit Waltz, Addiction: A 60’s Love Story, I Am Michael.  Upcoming Film: Pitching Tents.  Training: Yale University and LAMDA.

Off-Broadway/NYC: CONNECTED (59E59), INTIMACY (The New Group), CARD AND GIFT (Clubbed Thumb), ON THE VERGE (Attic Theater), A SPLINTERED SOUL (Theater Three).  Regional: 4,000 MILES and YOU WILL REMEMBER ME (Hudson Stage), VISITORS and THE SCREENWRITER’S DAUGHTER (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse), TWELFTH NIGHT (Payomet).  TV/Film: “Phil Spector” (HBO), “The Affair” (Showtime), “Lie to Me” (Fox), Knife FightTwo-Bit Waltz, Addiction: A 60’s Love Story, I Am Michael.  Upcoming Film: Pitching Tents.  Training: Yale University and LAMDA.

Artists

Henry Russell Bergstein, CSA

(Casting Director) Vineyard Theatre: GOOD GRIEF, THE AMATEURS, HARRY CLARKE, THE LYONS (and Broadway), GLORIA (and Goodman), DOT, THE LANDING, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, KID VICTORY (and Signature DC), TOO MUCH SUN, BILLY & RAY, SOMEWHERE FUN, THE NORTH POOL, ARLINGTON, OUTSIDE PEOPLE, CHECKERS, PICKED, MIDDLETOWN, THE METAL CHILDREN, WIG OUT!. Other theater: KPOP, SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS, NATASHA, PIERRE, & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812; THE WILDNESS (Ars Nova). Sundance Theatre Lab: 5 seasons. Television: US Casting for “Black Mirror,” Comedy Central’s “The Other Two” with Allison Estrin, HBO’s “Succession” and Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” with Douglas Aibel. Film: Saturday Church, It Felt Like Love, Easy Living; with Douglas Aibel – Grandma, Love After Love, How to Talk to Girls at Parties; with Allison Estrin – Spider-Man: Homecoming (NY Casting). Also: “Homecoming The Podcast” S1-2.

Joshua Yocom

(Props Master) is pleased to return to The Vineyard after previously propping THIS DAY FORWARD and CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?. Some of his memorable New York premieres include THE HUMANS (Roundabout and Broadway), LAZARUS (NYTW), GUARDS AT THE TAJ, THE MOTHER, THIS AIN’T NO DISCO, FIREFLIES, BLUE RIDGE (Atlantic Theater Co.), COLLECTIVE RAGE (MCC), and Sarah Ruhl’s PASSION PLAY.

Hillary Pfeffer

(Assistant Stage Manager) Off Broadway: MAN FROM NEBRASKA (Second Stage Theatre), THIS DAY FORWARD (Vineyard Theatre), WHILE I YET LIVE (Primary Stages). Regional: THE ROSE TATTOO and THE MODEL AMERICAN (Williamstown Theatre Festival), IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A RADIO PLAY (Bucks County Playhouse), GEORAMA: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL and THE OTHER PLACE (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), THE BIG MEAL, GREATER TUNA, BIG RIVER, and HAIRSPRAY (Timberlake Playhouse). Graduate of The Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.

Amy Taylor Rosenblum

(Assistant Director) Amy Taylor Rosenblum is a Brooklyn-based theater and film director whose work includes the forthcoming film Go Tell Your Fathers, The Benefit by Sarah Jones (Hewlett Foundation), THREE BITCHES (Taksu Theater), and GAMES WE PLAYED AS CHILDREN (Playwrights Horizons). Assistant/Associate Directing: Vineyard Theatre: THIS DAY FORWARD (dir. Mark Brokaw); The New Group: ALL THE FINE BOYS (dir. Erica Schmidt); MTC: HEISENBERG (dir. Mark Brokaw); Berkeley Rep: SELL/BUY/DATE (dir. Carolyn Cantor); PlayCo: ABYSS (dir. Maria Mileaf); Playwrights Horizons: THE PATRON SAINT OF SEA MONSTERS (dir. Lisa Peterson); STAGE KISS (dir. Rebecca Taichman); FLY BY NIGHT (dir. Carolyn Cantor). Amy is a graduate of Yale University where she studied directing and cognitive science.

Gina Gionfriddo

(Playwright) Gina Gionfriddo premiered CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, in her third collaboration with the company.  Gina is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN (Playwrights Horizons; Hampstead Theatre in London) and BECKY SHAW (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival; Second Stage Theatre; Almeida Theatre in London).  Her other plays include AFTER ASHLEY (ATL’s Humana Festival; Vineyard Theatre); and U.S. DRAG (in New York by Clubbed Thumb and the stageFARM.) She has received an OBIE Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an Outer Critics Circle Award, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and an American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg citation. She has written for the television dramas “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Cold Case,” “Borgia,” “The Alienist,” and “House of Cards.”

Peter DuBois

(Director) Peter DuBois is the Artistic Director at the Huntington Theatre Company (2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award) where directing credits include Stephen Sondheim’s SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC; world premieres of Gina Gionfriddo’s CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, Lydia R. Diamond’s SMART PEOPLE, Stephen Karam’s SONS OF THE PROPHET (2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist). His West End/London credits include SEX WITH STRANGERS, RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN (Hampstead Theatre), BECKY SHAW (Almeida Theatre). New York credits include THE POWER OF DUFF (NYSF/Powerhouse Theater); RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN (Playwrights Horizons, 2013 Pulitzer Prize Finalist); SONS OF THE PROPHET (Roundabout Theatre Company); MODERN TERRORISM, BECKY SHAW, TRUST, ALL NEW PEOPLE, and LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART (Second Stage Theatre); MEASURE FOR PLEASURE, RICHARD III with Peter Dinklage, MOM, HOW DID YOU MEET THE BEATLES?, BIRO (The Public Theater/NYSF); JACK GOES BOATING with Philip Seymour Hoffman and THE VIEW FROM 151ST STREET (LAByrinth/The Public Theater).

Lee Kinney

(Sound Design) Vineyard Theatre: “Daddy”, CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?. Other NY: SUNDAY (Atlantic), THOM PAIN (Signature), THE LIGHT YEARS (Playwrights Horizons), HOMOS (Labyrinth), A DOLL’S HOUSE, THE FATHER (TFANA); OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION, THE CONVENT OF PLEASURE (Cherry Lane); THE TOMB OF KING TOT (Clubbed Thumb). Regional: Weston Playhouse, Playmakers Rep, Long Wharf, People’s Light, Idaho Shakespeare, Great Lakes. Thanks to Kris. @thisisleekinney

Darren Pettie

Broadway: BUTLEY. West End: STRANGE INTERLUDE. Select Off-Broadway: UNWRAP YOUR CANDY (Vineyard); INCIDENT AT VICHY (Signature); DINNER WITH FRIENDS, THE MILK TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANYMORE (Roundabout); DETROIT, THIS, SPATTER PATTER (Playwrights Horizons); THE COLLECTION, HOBSON’S CHOICE (Atlantic).  Regional: THE ROSE TATTOO, DEDICATION OR THE STUFF OF DREAMS (Williamstown).  In film, Darren will next be seen opposite Michelle Monaghan and Logan Lerman in the upcoming Sidney Hall, which recently premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.  Television credits include: “Mad Men,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Wife,” and the pilot “Line of Sight.”  Darren will star in the new drama series “The Mist” premiering this June for Paramount Television.

Eshan Bay

Eshan Bay is an American film, TV, and stage actor. He studied at NYU, trained at The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, and recently received his MA in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He first appeared onstage in Long Wharf’s AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP, for which he won the Best Newcomer Award (CCC). He has worked with David Fincher on Netflix’s “House of Cards”, and starred in David Andalman’s American Milkshake, which premiered at Sundance. Other credits include the film Jack opposite Chloe Sevigny, THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (Atlantic Theater), FIT FOR A QUEEN (CTH), “Person of Interest,” and “Madame Secretary.”

Frank Wood

Drama League Award and the Tony Award for SIDEMAN. Broadway: HUGHIE, CLYBOURNE PARK, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, BORN YESTERDAY, HOLLYWOOD ARMS. Off-Broadway: THE BABYLON LINE, THE NETHER, ANGELS IN AMERICA, SPRING AWAKENING, THE GOD OF HELL. Film: Untitled Detroit Project, Gold, St. Vincent, Changeling, Taking of Pelham 123, Dan in Real Life, Thirteen Days, Pollock, People I Know, In America, Down to You, Royal Tennenbaums. TV: “The Get Down,” “Newsroom,” “Younger,” “The Good Wife,” “Modern Family,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Knick,” “Girls,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Sopranos,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Regional: Goodman Theatre, ACT, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Williamstown, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum. Education: BA, Wesleyan University; MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program.

 

Ella Dershowitz

Off-Broadway/NYC: CONNECTED (59E59), INTIMACY (The New Group), CARD AND GIFT (Clubbed Thumb), ON THE VERGE (Attic Theater), A SPLINTERED SOUL (Theater Three).  Regional: 4,000 MILES and YOU WILL REMEMBER ME (Hudson Stage), VISITORS and THE SCREENWRITER’S DAUGHTER (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse), TWELFTH NIGHT (Payomet).  TV/Film: “Phil Spector” (HBO), “The Affair” (Showtime), “Lie to Me” (Fox), Knife FightTwo-Bit Waltz, Addiction: A 60’s Love Story, I Am Michael.  Upcoming Film: Pitching Tents.  Training: Yale University and LAMDA.

Amber Tamblyn

Amber Tamblyn is a writer, director and actress from Los Angeles. She has received Emmy, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award nominations for her work in television and film. In television, Tamblyn starred in the cult classic drama, “Joan of Arcadia” as well as “House M.D.” Her feature film work includes The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, 127 Hours, Django Unchained and the critically lauded Steaphanie Daley, opposite Tilda Swinton. Tamblyn is the author of three books of poetry and prose: Free Stallion (Simon & Schuster), Bang Ditto (Manic D. Press) and most recent the acclaimed best seller Dark Sparkler (Harper Perennial), which explores the lives and deaths of child star actresses and features artwork from such luminaries as Marilyn Manson and David Lynch, among others. She is currently writing her 4th collection of poetry and a debut novel, due out on Harper Perennial in 2018. In theater, Tamblyn starred in Neil LaBute’s REASONS TO BE PRETTY at the Geffen Theater and played Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino’s live reading of THE HATEFUL EIGHT at The Ace Theater, which he also directed. Tamblyn writes for The Poetry Foundation and has a poetry book review column in Bust magazine. In 2014, she co-wrote and directed her first feature film, an adaptation of the Janet Fitch novel by the same name, Paint It Black, starring two time Oscar nominee Janet McTeer, Alia Shawkat and Alfred Molina which comes out in theaters in May. Tamblyn lives in Brooklyn.

Terri K. Kohler

(Production Stage Manager) Vineyard Theatre: INDECENT. New York: THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD…, CHERI (Signature); RED SPEEDO, SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, BELLEVILLE, THE BLACK EYED (New York Theatre Workshop); MOTHER COURAGE, DOCTOR FAUSTUS, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, THE SCHOOL FOR LIES, THE FOREST (CSC); FUTURITY (Soho Rep/Ars Nova); WASHETERIA, WE ARE PROUD…., ORANGE, HAT & GRACE (Soho Rep); PRETTY FILTHY, IN THE FOOTPRINT, PARIS COMMUNE, THE GREAT IMMENSITY (Civilians); THE DESIGNATED MOURNER, IN DARFUR, (The Public); GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, ANGEL REAPERS (Conceived by Martha Clarke). Select Regional: WILD SWANS (ART/Young Vic); OEDIPUS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, LA DISPUTE, THE SOUND OF A VOICE (ART). Usual Suspect (NYTW), Associate Artist, The Civilians.

Daniel Kluger

(Sound Design) Vineyard Theatre: CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?, SOMEWHERE FUN, THE NORTH POOL. Broadway: MARVIN’S ROOM (revival), SIGNIFICANT OTHER (world premiere). Off-Broadway: premieres of I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, ANIMAL, THE VILLAGE BIKE, MAN FROM NEBRASKA, TRIBES, and WOMEN OR NOTHING. Upcoming: Daniel Fish’s OKLAHOMA!, for which Kluger created new orchestrations for traditional bluegrass instruments. Kluger has produced dozens of other scores for Off-Broadway theaters including Lincoln Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, Atlantic Theatre Company, Second Stage, and Playwrights Horizons, as well as some of the country’s premier regional theaters: The Mark Taper Forum, The Ford’s Theater, Yale Repertory Theater. www.danielkluger.com

 

Jessica Pabst

(Costume Design) Vineyard Theatre: Can You Forgive Her?, Somewhere Fun, The Metal Children. Broadway: Marvin’s Room, The Heidi Chronicles. Recent Off-Broadway: A Life, Rancho Viejo, The Profane, Marjorie Prime, The Whale (Lucille Lortel Award, Playwrights Horizons); The Ruins of Civilization, When We Were Young and Unafraid, Murder Ballad (MTC); The Harvest (LCT3); Sundown Yellow Moon (Ars Nova/Women’s Project); The Nether (MCC); Fortress of Solitude (The Public). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf, Two River, Dallas Theatre Center, Children’s Theatre Company, and Center Theatre Group.

Russell H. Champa

(Lighting Design) Current and recent projects: PICKED, TIMON OF ATHENS (The Public Theater), THE GRAND MANNER (Lincoln Center Theater). Broadway: IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY, Julia Sweeney’s GOD SAID “HA!”. NYC: Manhattan Theater Club, 2nd Stage, New York Stage & Film. Regional: ACT, Berkeley Rep, The Mark Taper Forum, Wilma Theatre. Thanks J + J. PEACE.

Allen Moyer

(Scenic Design) Broadway: THE LYONS,  LYSISTRATA JONES, AFTER MISS JULIE, GREY GARDENS (Tony/Drama Desk nominations, Henry Hewes Award), THURGOOD, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, THE CONSTANT WIFE, TWELVE ANGRY MEN, RECKLESS. Recent Off-Broadway: THIS DAY FORWARD and DOT (Vineyard), STEVE and RASHEEDA SPEAKING (New Group), DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Roundabout/Laura Pels), FAR FROM HEAVEN (Playwright’s Horizons), GIANT (The Public), A MINISTER’S WIFE and THE NEW CENTURY (Lincoln Center Theater). Extensive opera credits include ORFEO ED EURIDICE for the Metropolitan Opera. Also, ROMEO AND JULIET; ON MOTIFS OF SHAKESPEARE with the Mark Morris Dance Group and CAROUSEL and SHOW BOAT (Live from Lincoln Center) for the New York Philharmonic, and THE NEW YORKERS and BIG RIVER (City Center Encores!). 2006 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence.

Reviews

Can You Forgive Her Quotes

“A WHIMSICAL PIECE OF WORK!

Amber Tamblyn is insistently alive, her outrageously out-there character draws all the light and heat in the room. Darren Pettie is pricelessly funny.”
– Marilyn Stasio, Variety


“GINA GIONFRIDDO HAS A TALENT FOR PUNGENT DIALOGUE.”

– Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter


“THE DIALOGUE CRACKLES!

Gionfriddo is terrific. Frank Wood is magnificient!”
– Robert Hofler, The Wrap


“AMBER TAMBLYN MAKES AN OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY DEBUT.

She is intoxicating!”
– Hayley Levitt, TheaterMania


“GIONFRIDDO HAS AN EAR FOR SNAPPY DIALOGUE, WHICH IS ON FULL DISPLAY IN CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?

Frank Wood is superb.”
– David Hurst, Talkin’ Broadway


“A WILD, ENTERTAINING RIDE!

‘Can You Forgive Her?’ Is a devilish screwball comedy. The characters are among the most colorful and quirky you’ll see on the stage this season. Ella Dershowitz is delightful. Amber Tamblyn is terrific.”
– Carol Rocamora, Theater Pizzazz


“GIONFRIDDO HAS A TERRIFIC EAR FOR DIALOGUE, AND AN EYE FOR COMIC TOUCHES”

– Jonathan Mandell, New York Theatre