Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England
Madeleine George’s new play is a deliciously smart and funny “academic sex comedy” about life in a small university town. Dean Wreen’s college is in dire financial straits, and a plan to close its on-campus natural history museum is sending unexpected shock waves in every direction—just as the Dean’s ex-girlfriend has come back into her life. This definitelycomplicates things with her much younger girlfriend, Andromeda. Neither budget cuts nor the shadows cast by seven about-to-be-homeless mammoths are any match for the sweet taste of romance in this hilarious and deeply moving play.
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CRITICAL ACCLAIM
The company’s first world premiere is an exceptional production.
TRICITY NEWS
Two River’s Mammoths is a success.
THE STAR-LEDGER
MEET THE ARTISTS
THE CAST
Joel Van Liew
The Caretaker
Joel Van Liew
Jon Hoche
Early Man 1
Jon Hoche
Lauren Culpepper
Lauren Culpepper is happy to return to Two River Theater, where she performed in the world premiere of Orestes: a Tragic Romp, a co-production with the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. Her New York credits include the Dinner Party (Lincoln Center Institute) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sonnet Repertory). Regional credits include Crime & Punishment (Baltimore Center Stage), I Capture the Castle (Signature Theatre), Hamlet (Aspen Music Festival), A New Jerusalem (Theatre J). Upcoming film: David Chase’s Twylight Zones. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Mercedes Herrero
Mercedes Herrero New York credits include: Seven (La MaMa, 92nd Street Y), Killing the Boss (Cherry Lane Theatre), Widows (59E59 Theatres), Night Over Taos (Theatre for the New City), Richard III, Henry V (The Public), O Jerusalem (The Flea), Comic Potential (Manhattan Theatre Club) and The Laramie Project (Union Square, original cast). Regional theater credits include: Deathtrap, Boeing Boeing, A Winter’s Tale (Asolo Rep). The Black Dahlia, Twelfth Night (Yale Rep), Nine Parts of Desire (Geva Theatre), the Voysey Inheritance (Baltimore Center Stage), A Streetcar Named Desire (Arena Stage), the Idiots Karamazov (American Repertory Theater), 33 Variations (Sundance Theatre Lab). She has also performed in Madrid, London, and Deauville, France. Film and TV adaptations: many lawyers in all four Law and Orders; Deception; Arranged; Definitely, Maybe; Aslyum Seekers; the Tao of Steve. Ms. Herrero holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
Deirdre Madigan
Deirdre Madigan is delighted to be making her Two River Theater debut. Broadway: After the Night and the Music. Off-Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding, Major Crimes, and Jigsaws. Other regional credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the English Theatre of Frankfurt; God of Carnage, the Little Foxes, Mary Stuart, Much Ado About Nothing, Spinning Into Butter, and Betty’s Summer Vacation at Pittsburgh Public Theater; All the King’s Men at Intiman Theatre; The Diary of Anne Frank at the Denver Center; A Marriage Minuet at Westport Country Playhouse and City Theatre; Dinner with Friends and Julius Caesar at Pioneer Theatre Company; Lips Together, Teeth Apart at George Street Playhouse. TV: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Good Wife.
Flor De Liz Perez
Flor De Liz Perez International: The Motherf**ker with the Hat (National Theatre, London). Off-Broadway: Dolphins and Sharks (Labyrinth Theater); Seven Spots on the Sun (Rattlestick Theater/The Sol Project); Comedy of Errors, Pericles (The Public); Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam); Los Monólogos de la Vagina (Westside Theatre); In the Time of the Butterflies (Repertorio Español). Selected Regional: Good Men Wanted (NY Stage & Film/Vassar College); The House that will not Stand (Berkeley Rep/Yale Rep); A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage); Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River Theater); In the Continuum, Pride and Prejudice, Nicholas Nickleby (PlayMakers Rep). Film: Big Exit (in post-production), The House That Jack Built. TV: Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, Elementary (CBS). www.flordelizperez.com.
THE CREATIVES
Scenic Design
Arnulfo Maldonado
Arnulfo Maldonado
Arnulfo Maldonado is a New York City-based set and costume designer. Previously at Two River: The Women of Padilla by Tony Meneses and Madeleine George’s Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, both with director Ken Rus Schmoll. Notable New York credits include: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play and Charm (MCC Theater); Bull in a China Shop (Lincoln Theater Center); Twelfth Night (The Public); Kingdom Come (Roundabout); Duat and generations (Soho Rep); Caught (Play Co); Men on Boats, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons); Iphigenia in Aulis (CSC). Regional: Berkeley Rep, Center Stage, Central City Opera, Guthrie Theater, Old Globe, Olney Theatre Center, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Tour: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower (Under the Radar Festival, NYUAD Arts Center, Abu Dhabi US Tour); The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir (BAM Next Wave/International tour). Mr. Maldonado is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist, a recipient of a Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award, and a multiple-Henry Hewes Design nominee. MFA: NYU Tisch. www.arnulfomaldonado.com
Costume Design
Kirche Leigh Zeile
Kirche Leigh Zeile
Kirche Leigh Zeile New York credits include the world premieres of The Eliots and Bone Portraits (both for Stillpoint Productions), The Last Word… (Theatre at St Clement’s), Monsterface (Irish Arts Center) and Barriers (HERE Arts Center). She is an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb, for which she designed Demon Baby, Alice the Magnet, Telethon, What Then?, Amazons and Their Men (Off-Broadway), and The Small. Regional credits include St. Ex (world premiere), Death of a Salesman, Rent, and Doubt for the Weston Playhouse; Visiting Mr. Green for Syracuse Stage; Intimate Apparel for Southern Rep; Merchant of Venice for the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Twelfth Night for Tulane Summer Shakespeare festival; Chicago, Cabaret, and Carousel for the Sharon Playhouse, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of Costume Design at Marymount Manhattan College and holds an MFA from MYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Lighting Design
Matt Frey
Matt Frey
Matt Frey recent work includes Melissa James Gibson’s This (Center Theatre Group and Playwrights Hoizons); Will Eno’s Middletown (Steppenwolf); David Greenspan’s Go Back To Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons); Jordan Harrison’s Futura (Portland Center Stage); Woody Sez (London West End); Freefall (Corn Exchange, Dublin); Heidi Schreck’s There Are No More Big Secrets (Rattlestick); Greg Moss’ Orange, Hat & Grace (Soho Rep). Other collaborations: Ridge Theater’s Decasia, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, Shelter Project, Oedipus, and The Death of Klinghoffer, and Steve Reich and Beryl Korot’s The Cave and Three Tales. Other companies he has collaborated with include Brooklyn Academy of Music, Naked Angels, The New Group, Manhattan Class Company, New York Theatre Workshop, and Paper Mill Playhouse as well as many other theaters regional and abroad.
Sound Design and Original Music
Ryan Rumery
Ryan Rumery
Ryan Rumery is a musician, composer, and music producer. His music is featured in the films How to Let Go of the World (Sundance 2016), City of Gold (Sundance and SXSW 2015, theatrical release with IFC/Sundance Selects in March 2016), Gatewood, SynchroNYCity, FlowerMan, and And, Apart. Recent theatrical scores include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Between Riverside and Crazy (Atlantic/Second Stage) and Fool for Love (Broadway). He performs drums and piano live with Palissimo’s trilogy of modern dances The Painted Bird (KioSK Festival in Slovakia, Baryshnikov Arts Center, La MaMa, PS122, Legion Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts). As a drummer, he performs with the Obie Award-winning The Secret City, as well as with Jeremy Bass, the Whale Tales, and Big Weather. Rumery was Sound Consultant for Sufjan Stevens’ Round Up at the Barbican and Edinburgh International Festival. He also consulted on the Nonesuch at 50 Festival at BAM for George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children featuring Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish, and Alarm Will Sound. He recently produced two albums for Jeremy Bass: Winter Bare and New York in Spring; the title track from the latter album won the John Lennon Songwriting Prize. Additional albums include the self-titled The Joy of Harm, The Whale Tales’ Methods, and his own Riverside, Outside Mullingar, 4000 Miles, Ivanov, and FlowerMan. Current and upcoming projects include albums with Arlo Hannigan, Big Weather, Jeremy Bass, Rich Russell and The Lonesome Heroes, and The Walker Project. www.ryanrumery.com.
Casting
Zoe E. Rotter
Zoe E. Rotter
Zoe E. Rotter Broadway: Waiting for Godot/No Man’s Land and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. West End: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Regional: Pinkolandia and Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River Theater!), Wild Swans (A.R.T./Young Vic). World Tour: Einstein on the Beach. Film: The ADK, Ce sentiment de l’été (NY Casting), The Girl in The Book, To Whom It May Concern, BearCity, Socks and Bonds (short), Just the Three of Us (short) and Mountain Low (short). Zoe is also in her fifth season of casting Symphony Space’s reading series ‘Selected Shorts.’
Production Stage Manager
Julia P. Jones
Julia P. Jones
Julia P. Jones has been working as an Actors’ Equity Stage Manager for the last 22 years. Credits include on Broadway: Urinetown: The Musical, The Producers, Hairspray, Sweeney Todd (revival), Disney’s Tarzan: The Musical, Young Frankensetin, The Norman Conquests, A Little Night Music (revival). Tours include Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Urinetown, Pete-n-Keely, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Buffalo’s Studio Arena Theatre, and Canadian Stage Company. Greatest accomplishments: Olivia, Cooper, and Ruby Jones.