don’t have any work to do, why can’t I just stay home and be paid?” I’m actually being paid for my presence. And then you look up and realize you’ve spent years of your life sitting in the same chair. It’s also worth mentioning that I was also drawing on some events I kept seeing in the news over and over again around the time that I was writing. Events that still show up—and seem to be showing up with even more frequency. MW: Can you tell us about the theme of ambition in the play? BJJ: New York is a city that basically runs on ambition. That’s why an assistant is willing to work for like, $26,000 a year, in a city in which that is definitely the poverty line. People make such sacrifices to work in fields that mostly fulfill some very strange emotional or psychological need that they may not even be fully aware of—needs which may not even be healthy at the end of the day. I’ve also met people who just seem to be ambitious for the sake of ambition–they’re just addicted to the feeling of moving up and ahead in life. In any case, I was interested in the ways that this kind of relationship to the idea of work affects the compromises you make with yourself and your morals. I was also interested in what a writer’s ambition is, because I was writing about a group of people whose job is to basically transcribe life and experience and decide what’s newsworthy or not newsworthy, what lives have value or not, determined by what happens in them.
include Miss Bennet and You Can’t Take It With You at Northlight Theatre and Million Dollar Quartet. Broadway credits include Curtains. Off-Broadway credits include Bill W. and Dr. Bob, How to Save the World and John Ferguson. Regional credits include work with Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Skylight Music Theatre, Tuacahn Center of the Arts and the Juilliard School. ROBERT FALLS (Goodman Theatre Artistic Director) This season, for his 30th anniversary at the Goodman, Mr. Falls will direct Annie Baker’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Last season, he directed the Chicago premiere of Rebecca Gilman’s Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976, and also partnered with Goodman Playwright-in-Residence Seth Bockley to direct their world premiere adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (Jeff Award). During the 2014/2015 Season, he reprised his critically acclaimed production of The Iceman Cometh at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles and directed a new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Other recent productions include Measure for Measure and the world and off-Broadway premieres of Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian. Among his other credits are The Seagull, King Lear, Desire Under the Elms, John Logan’s Red, Jon Robin Baitz’s Three Hotels, Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio and Conor McPherson’s Shining City; the world premieres of Richard Nelson’s Frank’s Home, Arthur Miller’s Finishing the Picture (his last play), Eric Bogosian’s Griller, Steve Tesich’s The Speed of Darkness and On the Open
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Adnaan Hamidˆ Kimbra Walterˆ Patrick Wood-Princeˆ President Alice Young Sablˆ Vice Presidents Rebecca Fordˆ David W. Fox Jr.ˆ Kristine R. Garrettˆ Rodney L. Goldsteinˆ Carl Jenkinsˆ Catherine Moulyˆ Michael D. O’Halleranˆ Elizabeth A. Raymondˆ Treasurer Jeffrey W. Hesseˆ Assistant Treasurer Douglas Brownˆ Secretary Cathy Kenworthyˆ Immediate Past Chairman Ruth Ann M. Gillis Founding Chairman Stanley M. Freehling Honorary Chairman Albert Ivar Goodman Honorary President Lewis Manilow Honorary Life Trustees The Honorable Richard M. Daley and Mrs. Maggie Daley* Life Trustees James E. Annableˆ María C. Bechily Deborah A. Bricker Peter C. B. Bynoeˆ Lester N. Coneyˆ Patricia Coxˆ Shawn M. Donnelley Paul H. Dykstraˆ Stanley M. Freehling Ruth Ann M. Gillisˆ Albert Ivar Goodmanˆ Sondra A. Healyˆ Lewis Manilow Carol Prinsˆ Members Kristin Anderson-Scheweˆ Anjan Asthana Matthew Carter Jr. Philip B. Clement Linda Coberly Kevin Cole Loretta Cooney Kathleen Keegan Cowieˆ Marsha Cruzan Julie M. Danisˆ Brian Dennehy Suzette Dewey Billy Dexter Robert A. Fallsˆ
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the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation John R. Mathena Daniel A. Simkowitz John Thomopoulos Isabelle Winkles ($1,000 or more) Leslie Chao Steven & Donna Gartner Ruth E. Gitlin Karen A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Foundation Adrian Liddard Robin & Bob Paulson Charitable Fund Mark Rosenblatt Stephanie Scott ˆIn-kind support SPOTLIGHT SOCIETY ADVISORY COUNCIL The Advisory Council is a group of estate planning professionals who aid the Goodman with its planned giving program.The Goodman is grateful to its members for the donation of their time and expertise. Charles Harris, Council Chair, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Christine L. Albright, Holland & Knight LLP Susan T. Bart, Sidley Austin LLP Gwen G. Cohen, Morgan Stanley Beth A. Engel, Wells Fargo Private Bank Robert G. Gibson, Clifton Allen LLP Barbara Grayson, Jenner & Block Robert E. Hamilton, Hamilton Thies & Lorch LLP David A. Handler, Kirkland & Ellis LLP Louis S. Harrison, Harrison & Held, LLP Kim Kamin, Gresham Partners, LLC Thomas F. Karaba, Crowley Barrett & Karaba Ltd. Rick Knoedler,
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