PORTLANDCENTERSTAGE Presents

Three Days of Rain

By Richard Greenberg

Directed by Chris Coleman

May 17 – June 21, 2015

Artistic Director | Chris Coleman

PORTLANDCENTERSTAGE Presents

Three Days of Rain By Richard Greenberg

DIRECTED BY CHRIS COLEMAN

Scenic Designer

Scott Fyfe

Costume Designer

Alison Heryer

Lighting Designer

Diane Ferry Williams

Sound Designer

Casi Pacilio

Stage Manager

Liam Kaas-Lentz

Production Assistant

Kristen Mun

Casting

Rose Riordan and Brandon Woolley

CAST LIST

Silas Weir Mitchell…………..…Walker Janeway/Ned Janeway

Lisa Datz……………………………...……..Nan Janeway/Lina

Sasha Roiz…………………………….Pip Wexler/Theo Wexler

Three Days of Rain was originally produced in New York City

by the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 21, 1997.

Commissioned and first produced by South Coast Repertory.

Three Days of Rain is presented by special arrangement with

Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Performed with one intermission.

Videotaping or other photo or audio recording of this production

is strictly prohibited.

The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are

members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of

Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

By Chris Coleman In Richard Greenberg’s story, Three Days of Rain, the yearning

to understand the father also stands at the center of the action.

As the play travels through time from its starting point in 1995,

back to its end in 1960, the characters (and the audience) find

themselves yearning to place the accurate puzzle pieces together

that will illuminate what has been, fundamentally, a mysterious

relationship with a towering figure who was both a father and

one of the great architects of the 20th century.

Why this play? Why now? It’s really Sasha’s fault. I read a few

years ago in The Pearl magazine that Sasha Roiz (who plays Pip

and Theo) had purchased a condo in the Pearl District and one of

the things he enjoyed was attending Portland Center Stage.

Ahem. Interesting.

I tracked down his email address and invited him for coffee. We

hit it off and began brainstorming about projects we might work

on together. It took a while to get schedules lined up, but in the

18 months that followed, he introduced me to Silas Weir

Mitchell and we read several pieces that the two of them might

work on together. Three Days of Rain interested us all because it

is both challenging and intriguing, offers great opportunities for

each of them, and tells a completely fascinating story.

CAST BIOGRAPHIES

Lisa Datz

Nan Janeway/Lina Lisa Datz’s theatrical roles include Madeleine Astor in the

Tony-winning production of Titanic on Broadway; Pam

Lukowski in the Tony-nominated production of The Full Monty;

Yitzhak in the Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the

Angry Inch with John Cameron-Mitchell; and Violet in Violet

(Jeff Award nomination). Recently, Datz guest starred as

Mackenzie Solloway on Bones (FOX); as Mary Fuchs on Castle

(ABC); in the feature film Time Out of Mind, directed by Oscar

nominee Oren Moverman and starring Richard Gere; and

Sponge Bob 2 with Antonio Banderas. Other film credits include

Melody Oates in The Perfect Holiday with Gabrielle Union and

Terrence Howard. In Los Angeles, she performed with

Grammy-winning composer Frank Wildhorn in Frank Wildhorn

& Friends at the Pantages Theatre. She played leading roles in

the critically acclaimed For the Record series in Los Angeles

and at the SXSW Film Festival. In New York, she performed the

role of Rowena opposite rock legends Joe Jackson and Todd

Rundgren in the 20th anniversary concert of Up Against It at

The Public Theatre. Other film credits include Ghost Town

(Paramount), leads in the indie films Stumptown and Fractured,

and Spectropia (Lincoln Center Film Festival). Other television

credits include Law & Order, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, The

West Wing, Hope & Faith, Guiding Light, All My Children, One

Life to Live, As the World Turns and Blue’s Clues. Regional

theatre credits include Meg in Crimes of the Heart, Julia in The

Two Gentlemen of Verona, Kari in The Pavilion and Ace at The

Old Globe. Datz is an avid equestrian, former competitive figure

skater, hip hop dancer, Star Wars/Downton Abbey geek and

Chicago native who currently divides her time between Los

Angeles and New York. She attended the Boston University

Theatre Institute and received her B.F.A from The University of

Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. She extends her

heartfelt thanks to Chris, Sasha and Silas and dedicates this to

her endlessly supportive friends and to her amazing parents.

@lisadatz, lisadatz.com

Silas Weir Mitchell

Walker Janeway/Ned Janeway

Silas Weir Mitchell currently stars in NBC’s fantastical

mystery/crime show Grimm, playing Portland's own vegan

horologist, Monroe. Prior to Grimm, Mr. Mitchell was most

widely known for his recurring role on the tautly paced FOX

drama Prison Break, starring as lead actor Wentworth Miller's

deeply unstable cellmate, Charles "Haywire" Patoshik. He is

also known for the role of Donny Jones, (another) ex-con and

friend of the title character played by Jason Lee in the NBC

comedy My Name Is Earl. Other TV includes NYPD Blue, The

X-Files, ER, Cold Case, The Mentalist, 24, Law & Order: SVU,

The Closer, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Burn Notice, Dexter,

Monk, Six Feet Under, Boomtown, The Shield, Portlandia. Films

include: The Patriot (Steven Seagal); Inferno (Jean-Claude Van

Damme); Rat Race; The Whole Ten Yards. After graduating

from Brown University with degrees in both Theatre Arts and

Religious Studies, Silas went on to earn his M.F.A. at the

University of California, San Diego. From there, he moved to

New York and did a few plays (including Tennessee Williams'

Tiger Tail at Harold Clurman Theater and Whenever I Fall at

Your Feet at HERE Theatre). Thence to L.A., where he started

to get film and TV jobs, as well as continuing to make his own

work acting and directing in theater. L.A. directing credits: The

Water Principle by Eliza Anderson (also producer) at The

Complex; Three Sisters (also Tuzenbach and producer) at The

Stella Adler Theatre; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune at

The Hudson Theatre; Bus Stop (also producer) at The MET

Theatre, where he was artistic director from 2001-2005. Acting

includes: Hurlyburly (Eddie), Amerikafka (Kafka); Gatsby in

Hollywood (S.J. Perelman) all at the MET. Blood! Love!

Madness! and The Women of Lockerbie at The Actors' Gang;

Lascivious Something and The Chinese Massacre at Circle X.

Silas would like to express deep gratitude to his acting mentor of

many years, Harry Mastrogeorge, for imparting perennial

wisdom in such an egoless, penetrating way. He is delighted to

be back on stage, and to be making his first appearance at PCS.

silasweirmitchell.com

Sasha Roiz

Pip Wexler/Theo Wexler

Sasha Roiz is about to begin his 5th season on the Portland-

based NBC hit supernatural drama Grimm. Roiz plays the

mysterious, part-royal, part-creature Police Captain Sean

Renard. Prior to Grimm, Roiz portrayed the role of the brutal

mob enforcer Sam Adama on the acclaimed science fiction

drama Caprica (with Eric Stoltz and Polly Walker). Roiz has

worked extensively in television. Some of his credits include:

CSI, The Mentalist, House M.D., Castle, Warehouse 13, It's

Always Sunny in Philadelphia and NCIS. Last year, Roiz played

the role of the formidable Roman centurian, Marcus Proculus, in

the blockbuster film Pompeii (alongside Kit Harington and

Kiefer Sutherland). Other film credits include: The Day After

Tomorrow (with Jake Gyllenhaal), 16 Blocks (Bruce Willis),

Man of the Year (Robin Williams) and Unthinkable (Samuel L.

Jackson). Roiz's first starring film role was in the independent

science fiction thriller Extracted, which premiered at the South

by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in 2012. Roiz is delighted

to return to the theater and is grateful to Chris Coleman and PCS

for this opportunity. Select theater work includes: Past/Perfect

at Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal, Canada (Best

Supporting Actor nominee at Les Masques Awards); Vinci at

Centaur Theatre Company and Travels with My Aunt at

Knowlton Theater, Quebec. Roiz trained theatrically at Dawson

College in his home town of Montreal, Canada; as well as at the

Guildford School of Acting conservatoire in Guildford, England.

Roiz came to Portland by way of Los Angeles, where he spent

several years. Grimm brought him to Portland, which he now

proudly calls home. He is an active member of this community

and just this past year spearheaded the Grimm Gala, which

raised over $300,000 for the Grimmster Endowment at the

Doernbecher Children's Hospital. Sasha would like to thank the

Portland community for its continued support and hospitality.

FEATURE I Traveling through time with Three Days of Rain “Richard Greenberg may be the best, most prolific American

dramatist you've never heard of,” proclaimed The Telegraph in

2009, the year it praised his play Three Days of Rain as “one of

the finest American plays of recent years.” With over 25 plays

and many successful Broadway productions under his belt,

Greenberg certainly is prolific – he’s been known to pen plays in

just three days. One of the scripts produced in such a burst of

writing just happens to be Three Days of Rain. Prior to writing

this script, Greenberg had been focused solely on writing for

film. One day, while walking home in the rain, he ran into

playwright, novelist and film director Peter Hedges. As

Greenberg reported to American Theatre Magazine: “We started

talking, and we got excited about writing plays again - which

neither one of us had been doing at that moment. It started this

flurry of activity that has made me write like crazy.” Three Days

of Rain was one of the first plays he penned in this newly

inspired swirl of writing, and Greenberg later dedicated the play

to Hedges.

The title of the play comes from a line in W. S. Merwin's poem,

For the Anniversary of My Death:

As today writing after three days of rain

Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease

And bowing not knowing to what

In Three Days of Rain, Greenberg plays with time and

perception by setting the first act in 1995 and going backwards

to a previous generation for the second act, with the actors

playing their characters’ own parents in 1960. “The first act is

the present dreaming the past, and the second act is the past

dreaming the future. The play is really about the gulf between

those two ideas,” Greenberg said in an interview with Playbill in

1997 prior to the world premiere of Three Days of Rain. He

toys with the constructs of time in several of his other plays as

well, including his most recent Broadway hit, The Assembled

Parties, in which the second act takes place 20 years after the

first. Greenberg credits the hugely popular 1967 BBC television

adaptation of John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga for his

fascination with time. "That television experience was the

foundation of my sensibilities," Greenberg told the Los Angeles

Times prior to a revival of Three Days of Rain at South Coast

Repertory where the play was first produced, "I want to get an

entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels,

how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's

going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us."

This production marks the debut of a Richard Greenberg play at

Portland Center Stage, as well as the exciting debuts of all three

actors performing the multi-generational roles: Silas Weir

Mitchell, Sasha Roiz and Lisa Datz. Much like Greenberg, we’re

big fans of playing with time at PCS. The traversing of ages in

Greenberg’s script provides a particularly exciting opportunity

for the local artisans we’ve gathered to create the 1995 and

1960’s Manhattan worlds you’ll witness in this production. All

told, over 25 professional craftspeople have joined these actors

and the creative team to assemble this production. The scenery

and props were built in PCS’s scene shop in NW Portland; an

army of painters was assembled to hand-paint the brick walls of

the set; the costume shop located here in the Armory has been

busy whipping up the fashions of 1995 and 1960; a crew of

fifteen skilled stage hands helped bring all the technical

elements together, including props, lights and sound; and a stage

manager, wardrobe and run crew are on site right now

supporting the actors at this performance. There have been many

productions of Three Days of Rain nationally and internationally

since its world premiere in 1997, but one of the great things

about local theater is that this production has been designed and

created specifically for these actors, in this space, at this time, in

this rainy city, to be enjoyed by you, our community.

- Claudie Jean Fisher, Public Relations and Publications

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CREATIVE TEAM BIOGRAPHIES Richard Greenberg

Playwright

Richard Greenberg is the author of Take Me Out (Drama Desk

Award; NY Drama Critics Circle Award; Outer Critics Circle

Award; Lucille Lortel Award; Tony Award for Best Play),

which moved to Broadway after successful runs at The Public

Theater in New York City and The Donmar Warehouse on

London’s West End. Other works include The Violet Hour, The

Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award; John Gassner, Lucille

Lortel nominations), Everett Beekin, Three Days of Rain (L.A.

Drama Critics Award; Pulitzer finalist; Olivier, Drama Desk,

Hull-Warriner nominations), Hurrah at Last, Night and her

Stars, The American Plan, Life Under Water and The Author’s

Voice, among many other plays. His adaptation of Strindberg's

Dance of Death was seen on Broadway starring Ian McKellen,

Helen Mirren and David Straithairn. Greenberg received the

Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first

PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career. He is an

associate artist at South Coast Repertory and a member of

Ensemble Studio Theater.

Chris Coleman

Director Chris joined Portland Center Stage as artistic director in May

2000. Before coming to Portland, he was artistic director at

Actor’s Express in Atlanta, a company he co-founded in the

basement of an old church in 1988. Chris recently returned to

Atlanta to direct the world premiere of Edward Foote at

Alliance Theatre. He also directed Phylicia Rashad and Kenny

Leon in Same Time Next Year at True Colors Theatre Company

in Atlanta in 2014. Favorite PCS directing assignments include

Threesome, Dreamgirls, Othello, Fiddler on the Roof,

Clybourne Park, Sweeney Todd, Shakespeare’s Amazing

Cymbeline (which he also adapted), Anna Karenina, Oklahoma!,

Snow Falling on Cedars, Ragtime, Crazy Enough, Beard of

Avon, Cabaret, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Man and

Superman, Outrage, Flesh and Blood and The Devils. Chris has

directed at theaters across the country, including Actor’s Theater

of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT-Seattle, The

Alliance, Dallas Theatre Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New

York Theatre Workshop and Center Stage in Baltimore. A

native Atlantan, Chris holds a B.F.A. from Baylor University

and an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon. He is currently the board

president for the Cultural Advocacy Coalition. Chris and his

husband, Rodney, are the proud parents of an 18 lb Jack

Russell/Lab mix, and a 110 lb English Blockhead Yellow Lab.

Scenic Designer

Scott Fyfe

Scott Fyfe holds a B.F.A. in sculpture from S.U.N.Y. New Paltz.

Scenic design highlights include Portland Center Stage’s

production of Othello and Village Theatre main stage

productions of Million Dollar Quartet, Stunt Girl, Chasing

Nicolette, Anne of Green Gables (Footlight Award), Take Me

America, Big River, Les Misérables (Gypsy Rose Lee Award

nominee, Gregory Award nominee), The Tutor and Mary

Poppins. Scott is thrilled to be back working with the

exceptional production team here at PCS.

Alison Heryer

Costume Designer Alison Heryer is a costume designer for theater, film and

print. She is thrilled to be returning to Portland Center Stage,

after recently designing costumes for Threesome. Other theater

credits include The Bluest Eye (New Victory Theater); The Fall

to Earth, A Lesson Before Dying, Orange Flower

Water and World Set Free (Steppenwolf Theatre

Company); Pippin, The Whipping Man, A Little More

Alive and The Who and The What (Kansas City Repertory

Theatre); The King and I, 33 Variations,

RENT and Doubt (ZACH Theatre), Jackie and Me at (Indiana

Repertory Theatre), Bum Philips All-American Opera (La

MaMa) and The Price at Artists Repertory Theatre. Recent

awards include the Austin Critics Table Award and the ArtsKC

Inspiration Grant. Alison is a faculty member at Portland State

University. She is a graduate of Washington University in St.

Louis and The University of Texas at Austin and a member of

United Scenic Artists.

Diane Ferry Williams

Lighting Designer

Diane Ferry Williams is pleased to be returning to Portland.

Diane has worked for many theaters around the country and

abroad. Her most recent design is a national tour of How to

Succeed beginning in Beijing, China. In the US, she has worked

for many theaters around the country, including the Marriott

Theatre in Chicago, Alliance Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars,

Goodspeed, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre,

Pittsburgh Public Theater, ACT-Seattle, Alabama Shakespeare

Festival, Ford’s Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and

Regional Dance America. Other international work includes The

Harlem Gospel Singers in Paris and the European tour, and Die

Shone Und Das Biest in Berlin and the European tour. She has

also lit several national tours and premieres. Awards include a

Jeff Award, an After Dark Award, a Carbonelle Award, five

Drammy Awards (the most recent being The Whipping Man)

and seven Jeff nominations. Diane has an M.F.A in Theatrical

Design from Northwestern University.

Casi Pacilio

Sound Designer

Casi keeps busy with a variety of work and play in Portland and

around the country. PCS credits include Cyrano, The People’s

Republic of Portland (2013 and 2015), Other Desert Cities,

Threesome, Dreamgirls, The Last Five Years, Othello, A Small

Fire, Twist Your Dickens (2013 and 2014), The Mountaintop,

Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, The North Plan, Shakespeare’s

Amazing Cymbeline, Black Pearl Sings!, Opus, Ragtime

(PAMTA Award 2010), The 25th Annual Putnam County

Spelling Bee, The 39 Steps, Snow Falling on Cedars, Crazy

Enough, The Little Dog Laughed, Sometimes a Great Notion,

Cabaret, The Pillowman, I Am My Own Wife, West Side Story

and Celebrity Row; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,

Chinglish and futura with composer Jana Losey; and eight

seasons of JAW. National shows: Holcombe Waller Surfacing

and Wayfinders; Hand2Mouth Theatre credits: Left Hand of

Darkness, My Mind is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy Award

2011), Something’s Got Ahold Of My Heart and PEP TALK.

Other theatrical credits include Squonk Opera’s

Bigsmorgasbord-WunderWerk (Broadway, PS122, national and

international touring); I Am My Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls

(La Jolla Playhouse); Playland, 10 Fingers and Lips Together,

Teeth Apart (City Theatre, PA). Film credits include Creation of

Destiny, Out of Our Time and A Powerful Thang. Recordings:

Glitterfruit’s fruit snacks.

Jana Losey Crenshaw

Composer Jana Losey Crenshaw is a singer-songwriter originally from

rural Pennsylvania. With a history that includes Broadway,

international touring, a solo career, and a reality TV show, she

has recently resurfaced in the Portland music scene. Recent

theater projects include: Please Validate Your Identity, a devised

theater piece for Fertile Ground Festival; composing the score

for Hand2Mouth Theatre's production of Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guinn; composing and arranging for Liminal's

recent production of Our Town at The Headwaters Theatre; and

composing musical transitions for Portland Center Stage's

futura, Chinglish, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and

Other Desert Cities. See more at janacrenshaw.com.

Mary McDonald-Lewis

Dialect Coach

Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a working artist since 1979

as SAG-AFTRA voice actor and on-camera performer, and in

theater for much longer as an actor and director. MaryMac has

been a dialect coach since 1999, and is house coach for

Hallmark Hall of Fame, the series Leverage, Grimm and

others. Film, television and stage clients range from overnight

sensations to Drammy, Obie, Emmy and Oscar winners, and

include a Knight of the British Empire. She is blessed to be

resident artist, speech and text director at Artists

Repertory Theatre and house coach at Portland Center Stage,

and is just thrilled to say this is her 23rd show as coach at

PCS. MaryMac thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always

wagging their tails when she comes home from telling her

tales. marymac.com

Liam Kaas-Lentz

Stage Manager Liam is a native of Bellingham, WA. He is an ensemble member

of Sojourn Theatre, having served as their stage and production

manager for the past ten years and thirteen productions. He has

also stage managed for Hand2Mouth Theatre, Portland

Playhouse, Artists Repertory Theatre, the Pacific Conservatory

for the Performing Arts, Geva Theatre Center, Oregon

Children's Theatre, Pixie Dust Productions, The Kitchen, River

to River Festival, Teatro Milagro and many others. He received

his B.F.A. in stage management from Southern Oregon

University and his M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction from

Portland State University. Liam has also taught stage and

production management with a focus on ensemble, devised, and

site-specific contexts and methodologies at Georgetown

University, Northwestern University, Portland State University,

Reed College and Lewis and Clark College. He is a proud

member of Actors’ Equity Association, and lives with his wife

and two cats in southeast Portland.

Kristen Mun

Production Assistant

Kristen Mun is originally from Hawaii and graduated from

Southern Oregon University with a B.F.A. in Stage

Management. Previous Portland Center Stage credits include

production assistant on Threesome, Lizzie and 2nd production

assistant on Fiddler on the Roof. Outside of Portland she has

worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory

Theatre and Actors Theater of Louisville. In Portland she has

worked as a production assistant and stage manager with other

theater companies such as Artists Repertory Theatre (And So It

Goes …, Red Herring), Oregon Children’s Theatre (A Year With

Frog and Toad, Charlotte’s Web, Ivy and Bean), Northwest

Classical Theatre Company (King John, Measure for Measure,

As You Like It), and Post5 Theatre (Hamlet). Outside of stage

managing, Kristen is also a fight choreographer and stage

combat teacher.

Barbara Hort, Ph.D.

Dramaturg

Barbara Hort, Ph.D., has maintained a private practice in

Portland for over 25 years, working primarily from the

psychological perspective developed by the Swiss psychoanalyst

Carl Jung. At the invitation of Chris Coleman, Dr. Hort has

served as a dramaturg on the PCS productions of Sweeney Todd,

Clybourne Park, the 2013 JAW festival, Fiddler on the Roof,

Othello, Dreamgirls, Threesome and now Three Days of Rain,

providing material on the psychological dynamics of the play

that can be used by the artists who are creating the performance.

FOR THIS PRODUCTION

Painters

Elecia Beebe

Lauren Newey

Shawn Mallory

Kiona McAlister

Sean Casey

Props Artisans

Teresa Pilar Huarte

Shawn Mallory

Sound Programmer and Engineer

Scott Thorson

Associate Sound Designer

Em Gustason

Sound Board Operator

Molly Gardner

Additional Set Construction

OMSI

SPONSOR STATEMENTS

Argyle Winery

Argyle Winery and Portland Center Stage have a lot in common.

We both celebrate the art of storytelling, we both value being

part of the community, and we both are an enduring part of

many happy memories. Cheers to Portland Center Stage on

another successful season! Keep doing what you are doing.

Berry Wealth Strategies

It is our founder’s daughter who is responsible for Berry Wealth

Strategies’ sponsorship in this performance here at Portland

Center Stage. Her passion for theater blossomed into a love

affair with the performing arts that is now shared by the entire

family. So when Berry Wealth Strategies began looking for a

venue to express our appreciation for the trust our clients place

in us, the decision was an easy one. Enjoy the performance.

Drs. Ann Smith Sehdev & Paul Sehdev

We are pleased to continue our support of Portland Center Stage

and encourage everyone to get out and enjoy the show!

Stoel Rives LLP

We believe theater plays a critical role in stimulating creativity

and ensuring a vibrant community. For more than 25 years,

Portland Center Stage has entertained, challenged and inspired

us by bringing stories to life in unexpected ways. Stoel Rives

applauds PCS for its amazing work, and eagerly looks forward

to more.