Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater & Music Theater.
The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone
The Woolgatherer is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Run Time
Approximately 90 minutes, with a 2 minute pause between Act 1 and Act 2.
Content Advisory
This production includes descriptions of a suicide, animal abuse, blood, mental health crises, and medical sedation in response to a mental health crisis; depiction of attempted sexual coercion; and mentions of alcoholism, spousal physical abuse, and parental physical abuse.
Special Notes
The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production and distributing recordings or streams in any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author(s)’s rights and actionable under United States Copyright Law. Learn more information about protecting artists
No flash photography permitted. Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches, and refrain from text messaging for the duration of the performance.
Accessibility
The Drapkin Studio is an accessible venue equipped with assistive listening devices. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations.
Cast A
Cliff: Jay White ’24*
Rose: Sarah Duntley ’24*
Cast A performs March 1 & 2 at 7:30 p.m., and on March 3 at 3:00 p.m.
Cast B
Cliff: Joe McLean ’27*
Rose: Sydney Hwang ’24*
Cast B performs on March 2 at 3:00 p.m.
Production Team
Director: Elena Araoz
Lighting Designer: Elena Milliken
Stage Manager: John Venegas Juarez ’25*
Assistant Director: Wasif Sami ’25*
Assistant Stage Manager: Dominic Dominguez ’25*, Avi Chesler ’25*
Run Crew: Layla J. Williams ’25
Violence and Intimacy Director: Jacqueline Holloway
*denotes a certificate student/minor in the Program in Theater & Music Theater
Faculty Advisors
Elena Araoz
A Note from the Project Proposers
Heading into the proposal process, we both had a clear vision in mind: a contemporary play with difficult material, a small cast, where the process is focused on the acting training and formation under the guidance of a professional director. Due to our similar visions, we were paired together under the leadership of Professor Elena Araoz, who helped us find this wonderful play and has led us through the exact type of process we so desperately wanted. Thank you to everyone who helped this project get off the ground, everyone who helped it stay in the air, and especially to Elena for all she has done in realizing this project.
— Sarah Duntley and Jay White
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information about ways you can engage with and support the Indigenous community on campus please visit the website of Native American and Indigenous studies (NAI), Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Director of Program in Theater: Jane Cox
Producing Artistic Director, Theater And Music Theater Season: Elena Araoz
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