The Playwrights’ Center: May 1999
Developmental Workshop Production
Minneapolis, MN
The finished draft of the previous version of “Leave,” under the title “The Surface of the World,” was the end product of a workshop production process funded by the author’s 1999 Fellowship grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board*.
The production was directed by Gregg A. Peterson.
Sound design by Nathan Carlton.
Five original songs commissioned from, written and performed by Glenn Shope.
Rehearsals began Monday, March 22, 1999, at the Center for Performing Arts.
Performances were Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 14, 15, & 16, 1999, held at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The cast was as follows:
NICHOLAS DRAPER: Jamison Haase
ANGELA LUNDY: Amy Rydberg
EMMA DRAPER: Renee Werbowski
SETH LUNDY: William T. Leaf
JAMES FOSTER: William Franke
*This activity was made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Matthew A. Everett was a Fiscal Year 1999 recipient of an $8,000 Fellowship grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
(photo: Production Team photo for the 1999 Minnesota State Arts Board workshop of “The Surface of the World” in Minneapolis, MN: (front, left to right) Gregg A. Peterson (director), Jamison Haase (Nicholas) and William T. Leaf (Seth); (middle, left to right) Renee Werbowski (Emma), William Franke (James), and Amy Rydberg (Angela); (back, left to right) Glenn Shope (musician) and Matthew A. Everett (playwright); photography by Shana Goldman)
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