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Two River Theater

Dial M for Murder

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher

From the Original by Frederick Knott

Directed by Jenn Thompson

The Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater

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Is there such a thing as the perfect murder? Planning one might be possible, but pulling it off… that’s another matter. Having discovered his beautiful — and very wealthy — wife Margot’s infidelity, Tony has plotted his revenge. But the execution of her execution might not go according to design. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher (Scotland Road, Wait Until Dark) brings an exhilarating new eye to the stylish thriller that inspired a Hitchcock classic.

Dial M for Murder (Hatcher)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

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MEET THE ARTISTS

THE CAST

Robert Eli

ROBERT ELI (LESGATE)  Rob just wrapped the first season of “Your Friends and Neighbors” starring opposite John Hamm, Olivia Munn, and Amanda Peet, premiering April 11th on Apple TV+.  He has appeared on Broadway and Off, Internationally and Regionally. Selected theatres include: Lincoln Center, The Roundabout, Primary Stages, Williamstown, Hartford Stage, Westport, The Alley, Long Wharf, The Old Globe,  and The English Theatre of Frankfurt (Germany). He has appeared in over thirty television shows and films including “House of Cards,” “The OA,” “Manifest,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Bull,” “Blindspot,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Fight,” “Blacklist,” “Chicago Med,” “God Friended Me,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” Death Saved My Life, “Odd Mom Out,” “Fringe,” and of course “Law & Order: SVU” to name a few.  Rob is a proud graduate of The Juilliard School (Group 37) and an even prouder cancer survivor.  He lives in Brooklyn with his incredible wife Janie, and their sweet cat Abby The Tabby.

Olivia Gilliatt

OLIVIA GILLIATT (MARGOT) is thrilled to work at Two River, and to work with Jenn Thompson again. Off-Broadway: Partnership and CHAINS (both at The Mint), Mother of the Maid  (The Public). Downtown: Negative Liberty/Positive Liberty (Invisible Dog), CasablancaBox (Culturemart@HERE), Pushkin (the american vicarious). Regional: World Premiere of Ken Ludwig’s MORIARTY: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure (Cleveland Play House), The 39 Steps (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Dial M for Murder (Bucks County Playhouse), Disgraced (Denver Center and Northern Stage), A Doll’s House (Northern Stage), Buried Child (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Tomorrow in the Battle (Stageworks/Hudson), Boeing Boeing (Seven Angels). Film: the forthcoming Hello, Beautiful, Katie Holmes’ Rare ObjectsThe Bit Player, Tyrel. TV: Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s PBS documentary “Hemingway,” “The Path,” “The Mysteries of Laura.” Olivia is a member of the multidisciplinary art collective The New Wild, and hosts a devised theater and games gymnasium called Book Club. Love and gratitude to DRG and KAG. Bachelor’s: Dartmouth College. MFA: NYU. www.thenewwild.org

Tony Roach

TONY ROACH (TONY WENDICE) Tony Roach is an actor who has acted in various acting projects since he started acting. Broadway: The. Cottage, Flying Over Sunset, My Fair Lady, Bright Star. Off-Broadway: The Liar (Classic Stage), Arden of Faversham (Red Bull), She Stoops to Conquer, Salute to the Brave (TACT), The Men (PrimaryStages). Selected Regional: Shakespeare Theatre of DC: Affiliated Artist, The Importance of Being Earnest, All’s Well That Ends Well, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Imaginary Invalid and three world premiere plays by David Ives (The Liar, The Metromaniacs, The Panties …); Hamlet (Hartford Stage), Barefoot in the Park , The Mousetrap (Dorset), Guys & Dolls (Goodspeed), Rich Girl (World Premiere, George St./Cleveland), Crazy for You, (Ogunquit), An Old-Fashioned Family Murder (World Premiere, New Theater), As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet (Shakes & Co.), Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre Aspen). Film/Television: Elsbeth, Succession, The Affair, The Blacklist, Law & Order, Elementary, Walk the Line. Former guitarist and singer with the rock band Catalytic. Education: ART/MXAT, Columbia University. Awards & Nominations: Not a one.

Triney Sandoval

TRINEY SANDOVAL (INSPECTOR HUBBARD) (BROADWAY: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Marvin’s Room, MACBETH, A Free Man of Color, A Man for All Seasons, and Frost/Nixon. OFF BROADWAY: 72 Miles to Go…(Drama Desk nomination), Dig, The Thin Place, Important Hats of the 20th Century, Timon ofAthens, The Idior, Elliot, A Soldiers Fugue, As You Like it, and Whisper. REGIONAL: This is Triney’s fourth time at Two River Theater. Previously he has been seen as Elliot in Private Lives, Manuel in 26 Miles, and most recently, Governor Hibbins in last season’s production of The Scarlet Letter. Other regional theaters include The La Jolla Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, American Players Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, The Wilma Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, Roundhouse Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Denver Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Virginia Stage, Center Stage, Yale Rep., Milwaukee Rep.,San Jose Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Shakespeare, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and six seasons with Oregon Shakespeare Festival. TELEVISION: Blue Bloods, Prodigal Son, Black List, Elementary, Lights Out, The Sopranos, and recurring roles on both Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU.

Jasmin Walker

JASMIN WALKER (MAXINE) Broadway: Avenue Q. Off-Broadway includes: Conflict (Mint Theater Company), Avenue Q (New World Stages), Jesus Christ Superstar All-Female Concert & Album (Highline Ballroom). Regional includes: TheaterWorks Hartford, KC Rep, Theatre Aspen, Syracuse Stage, Music Theatre Wichita and The MUNY. TV/Film includes: “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” “Dear Edward,” “Law & Order,” “The Endgame,” “Love Life,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “When They See Us,” “The Path,” “Madoff” (ABC), “St. Marks,” Original Sound, Can You Stand the Rain, Eklypse: A Hip Hop Fable, Land of Owls, How The Light Gets In. Proud VO actor with current national campaigns, promos, animation, video games, & audiobooks. BFA from CCM.

THE CREATIVES

Adaptor

Jeffrey Hatcher
Jeffrey Hatcher

Broadway: Never Gonna Dance (Book). Off-Broadway: Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club; Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages; Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) at The Minetta Lane; Murder By Poe, The Turn of the Screw and The Spy at The Acting Company; Neddy at American Place; and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline.

Other Plays/Theaters: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Mrs. Mannerly, Murderers, Mercy of a Storm, Smash, Armadale, Korczak’s Children, To Fool the Eye, The Falls, A Piece of the Rope, All the Way with LBJ, The Government Inspector, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and others at The Guthrie, Old Globe, Yale Rep, The Geffen, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Arizona Theater Company, San Jose Rep, The Empty Space, Indiana Rep, Children’s Theater Company, History Theater, Madison Rep, Intiman, Illusion, Denver Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Actors Theater of Louisville, Philadelphia Theater Company, Asolo, City Theater, Studio Arena and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad.

Film/ TV: Stage Beauty, Casanova, The Duchess, and episodes of Columbo. Grants/Awards: NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation and Barrymore Award Best New Play. He is a member and/or alumnus of The Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild and New Dramatists.

Original Playwright

Frederick Knott
Frederick Knott

Director

Jenn Thompson
Jenn Thompson

Jenn Thompson (Director) is a NYC-based, Drama Desk-nominated director whose work has been seen in NYC and at theaters across the country including Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Denver Center, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, St. Louis Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, CTC, City Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Barrington Stage, Hartford TheatreWorks, Theatre Aspen, and Dorset Theatre Festival, among others. Recent productions include the current National Tour of Annie as well as the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of Chains, Conflict, and Women Without Men (The Mint Theatre Company), which garnered Lortel and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominations for Outstanding Revival as well as five Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Director and Revival. NYC credits include work at Rattlestick, Barrow Group, The York Theatre Company, Abingdon, MCC, NAMT, NYMF, Primary Stages, and FringeNYC, as well as serving as Co-Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, where her directing credits for the company earned a Drama Desk nomination for her revised revival of Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers as well as an Off-Broadway Alliance Award for her production of Beth Henley’s play Abundance. She is married to actor Stephen Kunken. They live in Brooklyn and Connecticut with their daughter, Naomi. jennthompsondirector.com

Scenic Designer

Wilson Chin
Wilson Chin

Wilson Chin (Scenic Designer) Designs on Broadway include Cost of Living (Pulitzer Prize winner), Pass Over(Drama Desk, Lortel and Henry Hewes Award nominations) and Next Fall. Off-Broadway designs include Jonah (Roundabout Theatre Company), Sumo (Public Theater/Ma-Yi Theatre), Nina (TheatreLab), A Bright New Boise and Sunset Baby (Signature Theatre), The Animal Kingdom (Connelly Theatre), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons) and Space Dogs (MCC, Lortel Award nomination). Wilson also designed the current international tour of Annie, which played in Madison Square Garden starring Whoopi Goldberg. Regional credits include The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (La JollaPlayhouse and Signature Theatre), Anne of Green Gables and Summer Stock (Goodspeed Musicals) and Blue Man Group (Orlando). Opera credits includeTurandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago) and Eine Florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera,Dora Award winner). Wilson is a proud Eastern Region Board member of Local USA 829. Instagram: @wilsonchindesign Associate set designer: Lily Tomasic

Costume Designer

Jess Goldstein
Jess Goldstein

Jess Goldstein (Costume Designer) previously designed The Ballad of Little Jo at Two River Theater. New York credits include Jersey Boys, Disney’s NewsiesOn the TownThe Rivals (2005 Tony Award), The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (Tony nomination), Plenty with Rachel Weisz, Henry IV with Kevin Kline (Tony nomination), ProofJulius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Love! Valour! Compassion!Take Me OutTintypesThe Most Happy FellaBuried ChildHow I Learned to DriveStuff HappensDinner with Friends and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). His opera designs include Il Trittico for the Metropolitan Opera, Dead Man Walking for New York City Opera, and Two Women and Heart of a Soldier, two recent world premieres, for San Francisco Opera. Jess has also designed for film and television, most notably A Walk on the Moon directed by Tony Goldwyn, The Substance of Fire with Sarah Jessica Parker and Talking With and Far East for PBS’ Great Performances. He is the 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he has been a Professor in the design department since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2015 Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama where he also taught from 1990 to 2019. http://www.jess-goldstein.com 

Lighting Designer

Philip Rosenberg
Philip Rosenberg

Philip Rosenberg previously designed My Wonderful Dayat Two River Theater. Off Broadway credits include Cactus Flower. Regional credits include: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage Company, TACT, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, and Westport Country Playhouse. Over the past 12 years Philip has served as associate lighting designer on over 35 Broadway plays and musicals.

Sound/Composition Designer

Jane Shaw
Jane Shaw

Jane Shaw previously designed El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom, The Women of Padilla, Lives of Reason, Guadalupe in the Guest Room and Pinkolandia at Two River Theater. New York credits include I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons); Actually (MTC, Williamstown Theatre Festival); Measure for Measure (Theatre for a New Audience); Ironbound (Rattlestick/Women’s Project); En el tiempo de las Mariposas (Repertorio Español) and 30 productions with the Mint. Regional credits include The Royale  (Cleveland Play House); Caroline, or Change (Tantrum Theater); Rear Window, Breath and Imagination (Hartford Stage); They Promised Her the Moon (Old Globe) and productions at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Mark Taper Forum, ACT, and with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Next: Annie Get Your Gun at Bay Street, Into the Breeches at Cleveland Play House. Recognition: Bessie Award, Henry Award, Drama Desk, Premios ACE 2012, two Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, Meet the Composer grant, Theatre Communications Group’s Career Development Program, and nominations for three Lortels, Henry Hewes and Elliot Norton Awards. She was born in Kansas and lives in Brooklyn.

Wig, Hair, and Makeup Co-Design

J. Jared Janas
J. Jared Janas

Jared Janas (Wig, Hair, and Makeup Co-Design) Broadway: Our Town, Once Upon a MattressMary Jane,Prayer for the French Republic, Purlie VictoriousGood Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd…, Ohio State Murders, & JulietKimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, How I Learned to Drive, American Buffalo, Jagged Little PillFrankie and Johnny in the Claire de LuneGettin’ the Band Back Together, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, All about Me. Recent Off Broadway: Sally & Tom (Drama Desk Nomination), Dead Outlaw, Sunset Baby, Jelly’s Last Jam, Yours Unfaithfully (Drama Desk Nomination). Instagram: JJJanas_

Sarah Norton
Sarah Norton

Sarah Norton (Wig, Hair, and Makeup Co-Design) is a New York City-based wig artist specializing in wig design and building. She has had a hand in over a dozen Broadway productions as a wig builder, supervisor, associate designer, and/or swing. Prior to living in New York City, she was the assistant designer for The Dallas Opera and Opera Tampa. Instagram: @sarahnortonwigs

Dialect Design

Amy Stoller
Amy Stoller

AMY STOLLER (Dialect Design) has provided dialect design and/or dramaturgy for over 40 productions at Off-Broadway’s award-winning Mint Theater Company, including Garside’s Career (now playing), and, with director Jenn Thompson, Women Without Men, Conflict, and Chains. Other current/recent theatre: When Gold Turns Black (Theater for the New City); Camino Real (La Femme). With/by Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy and Notes from the Field (stage and screen); Love All; Twilight; Fires, others. Amy’s film & television credits include Zola (Colman Domingo as X), Selma (Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King), and “Dora the Explorer.” Podcast: “The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage.” She is a recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women Ruth Morley Design Award for Outstanding Work in the Field of Theatrical Design. www.stollersystem.com.

Stage Manager

Alison Cote
Alison Cote

ALISON COTE (Production Stage Manager) is a freelance stage manager based in Princeton, New Jersey. She has stage managed atMcCarter Theatre for 26 seasons, including over 20 world premieres collaborating with playwrights Athol Fugard, Christopher Durang, Edward Albee, among others. Recent productions include Empire Records: The Musical, Choice (by Winnie Holzman), Ride the Cyclone and Dreaming Zenzile. New York credits include Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage and The Public Theatre. Other regional credits: The Old Globe, Spoleto USA, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company DC, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf, Paper Mill, Center Theatre Group, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Pittsburgh Public, George Street Playhouse and over 25 productions with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Abroad, Alison was stage manager for An Iliad (by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson) at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania.

Assistant Stage Manager

Abigail Medrano
Abigail Medrano

Abigail Medrano (Assistant Stage Manager)

Fights and Intimacy Coordinator

UnkleDave’s Fight-House
UnkleDave’s Fight-House

UNKLEDAVE’S FIGHT HOUSE (FIGHT DIRECTION) is a team of fight/
intimacy coordinators comprised of LGBTQ theater makers. Two River credits: Hombres; El
Coqui Espectacular & The Bottle of Doom; Theo; Raisin In The Sun, Be More Chill; Seven
Guitars, King Hedley ll. Broadway: Ain’t No Mo; Kimberly Akimbo; Girl From The North Country;
Tuck Everlasting; Escape To Margaritaville; The Great Society ; An American In Paris; Disgraced.
Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (NYTW) ; On Sugarland (NYTW) ; soft (MCC) ; Halfway
Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Labyrinth/Atlantic, Drama Desk Nom.); Oedipus El Rey (The
Public)(Drama Desk Nom.) Film: Poor Behavior; Emoticon. TV: AnnieLive!

NEWS & UPDATES

this show is for you if...

  • You’re drawn to classic stories told with a modern twist through the queer lens.
  • You’re a fan of classic whodunnits where nothing is as it seems.
  • You love suspenseful thrillers that keep you on the edge of your seat.
  • You love the glamorous, mid-century style of the 1950s.
  • You’re a self-titled movie buff who especially loves Hitchcock’s slow-burn suspense.

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ASL
American Sign Language Interpreted

American Sign Language Interpreted Performances for patrons with hearing loss, and fluency in ASL. Theatrical interpreters stand near the stage translating the dialogue into ASL.

Play Date

Post Show Talkback

AD
Audio Described

Audio Description is available for patrons with vision loss. Using a lightweight headset, with no wires or cables, that operates with a FM system, patrons can hear a live, objective and concise description of the action on stage.

OC
Open Captioned

Open Captioning is available for patrons with hearing loss. This service is useful to those who may not fully benefit from the FM amplification system, or who need help catching particular words. A screen, which projects dialogue as the action occurs live on stage, is placed to the side of the stage.