Mr. Pim Passes By
The action takes place in the morning room at Marden House, Buckinghamshire,
on a day in July, 1920,
where George Marden, his wife, Olivia, and niece, Dinah, reside
Pictured at stately Marden Manor: (seated) Caroline Davis, Wesley Paine, stage manager Nick Caprioli; (standing) Gregg Colson, Merredith Brittain, Rick Seay, Lizzie Boston, Aaron Ardisson
The cast, in order of appearance
Merredith Brittain……………………..Anne, the housekeeper
Gregg Colson……………………………Mr. Carraway Pim, a visitor
Lizzie Boston…………………………..Dinah Marden
Aaron Ardisson………………………..Brian Strange, a Futurist painter
Caroline Davis…………………………Olivia Marden
Rick Seay………………………………..George Marden, J.P.
Wesley Paine…………………………..Lady Marden, aunt to George
Director: Rick Seay
Producer: Jennifer Rybolt
Stage Manager: Nick Caprioli
Ass’t Stage Manager: Tom Markham
Costumes: June Kingsbury
Set Decoration: Gregg Colson
Dramaturg: Andrea Bradley Hearn
Program & Poster Design: Danny Proctor
Photography: Catharine Hollifield
Properties: Chase Jeffords
Presented by
Mr. Pim Passes By is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
LIZZIE BOSTON (“Dinah”), graduate of the Harpeth Hall School, Class of 2013, has been participating in theater for many years, her favorite role being Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. Next year, she will attend Tufts University in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts. She plans to study Spanish, Business, or International Relations. She is honored to share this stage with an incredibly warm and talented group of actors.
MERREDITH BRITTAIN (“Anne”) has worked as a theatre professional throughout the US for over 25 years, primarily in stage management and production management. She has served as assistant production manager at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and has stage managed more than 30 productions including Les Miserables National Tour, world premiere of The Adventures of Amy Bock and A Midsummer Nights Dream at Yale Repertory Theatre, Le Docteur Miracle at Yale Opera, and numerous regional theatre productions. Merredith is a graduate of Yale School of Drama with a MFA in Stage Management, as well as a MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica.
GREGG COLSON (“Mr. Pim”) is just passing by…
AARON ARDISSON (“Brian Strange”) is thrilled to return to the Montgomery Bell Academy stage for this production of Mr. Pim Passes By. Aaron is currently a sophomore at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He would like to thank Rick Seay for the opportunity to work alongside such experienced and skilled creative minds.
CAROLINE DAVIS (“Olivia Marden”) has performed with various local theatre groups (ACT 1, Blackbird, Rhubarb, Groundworks, Circle), on occasion as an ice skater, a monkey, a Marx Brother, a shepherdess (twice) and a dead person (thrice). Among her favorite roles are “Amanda” in Private Lives; “Sylvia” in Sylvia and in The Women; “Mrs. Erlynne” in Lady Windermere’s Fan; “Rose” in Enchanted April; “Haley” in Bad Dates; “Florence Nightingale” in Twilight of the Gods, and the title role of Lady Frederick. She has also sung in three Nashville Opera productions. A member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Nashville Chapter, she is an alumna of Leadership Music.
RICK SEAY (Director / “George Marden”) has directed and performed in hundreds of productions around the Nashville area, including companies such as ACT I, Circle Players, Chaffin’s Barn, and Tennessee Dance Theater. Most recently, he directed a state winning one-act version of The Elephant Man, which represented Tennessee at the Southeastern Theatre Conference. A life-long educator, Rick taught at Hillwood High School, was founding Head of School at East Academy, and currently teaches Latin and European History at Montgomery Bell Academy where he is also the Head of the High School and Academic Dean.
WESLEY PAINE (“Lady Marden”) has worked for various theater companies in the greater Nashville area over the past thirty years and is a founding member of John Holleman and Co., a troupe that specializes in mask work. Favorite roles include Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals (ACT I), Duchess of York in Richard III (Nashville Shakespeare Festival), Hecuba in Trojan Women (Actors Bridge), Ouisa in Six Degrees of Separation (ACT I), Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Belmont University), Claree in Steel Magnolias (Circle Players), Amanda in The Glass Menagerie (Murfreesboro Center for the Arts), Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Rep’s REPaloud) and Dottie/Mrs. Clackett in Noises Off (Boiler Room Theater). She is currently in rehearsal for Rabbit Hole, a Lipscomb University/Circle Players joint production which will run the last three weekends this month.
NICK CAPRIOLI (Stage Manager) is a graduating senior at Purdue University majoring in Public Relations and minoring in Theatre Design & Production. He graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy in 2009 and has been involved (both on and off stage) with numerous productions including Oh, What a Lovely War!, Footloose, The Government Inspector, Guys and Dolls, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and Nothing Says “I Love You” Like Bad Poetry.
JUNE KINGSBURY (Costume Designer) has been costuming Nashville theater productions since 1999. In recent years, she has branched out to tailor stage outfits for recording artists such as Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Carrie Underwood and Jewel and television shows including NBC’s “Nashville Star.” As a theatrical costumer, she has designed shows for Nashville Shakespeare Festival, People’s Branch Theater, Belmont University Theater, Lipscomb University Theater, Vanderbilt Opera and Montgomery Bell Academy. She was chosen by the Nashville Scene as their Best Costume Designer for 2011. Visit www.junebugnashville.com
JENNIFER RYBOLT (Producer) marks her 15th year producing theater in the Nashville area with this venture. Among her favorite shows are Our Town (her first such foray), The Pirates of Penzance and Oh! What A Lovely War. She is the author of Nest of Hope: One Woman’s Journey Through a Hysterectomy, The Loss of a Dream and the Quest to Hatch a New One, and was a contributor to the collection Dare to Be a Difference Maker Volume 2: Difference Makers Who Dare to Live with Passion.
CHASE JEFFORDS (Properties) is happy to join her friends in supporting Mr. Pim Passes By. After many years of working in theatre, she finds she enjoys it even more as an avocation. She has been involved (on stage and off!) in several local theatre companies, including Act I, Shalom Theatre, and Towne Centre Theatre.
THE MORNING ROOM
A British term held over from the nineteenth century, “morning room” designates a “sitting-room, often with east-facing exposure, suited for daytime calls.” It is therefore different from a parlor or drawing room: it is a formal, public space but comfortable enough to be used regularly by the family. If one wanted to be really academic, one could say that it’s a kind of liminal space: part public, part private, it witnesses revelations of both kinds. One converses with strangers as well as intimates in a morning room, so one’s psyche is perhaps poised on the boundary between formality and informality, interiority and externality, with all the shades of comfort and terror suggested by both spaces.
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