HARVEY FIERSTEIN is the author of the Tony-winning hit, Kinky Boots, as well as Torch Song Trilogy (Tony, Drama Desk and Obie Awards), La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Newsies (Tony nominated), Casa Valentina (Tony nominated), A Catered Affair (12 Drama Desk nominations), Safe Sex (Ace Award), Legs Diamond, Spookhouse, Flatbush Tosca, Common Ground and more. He has recently rewritten The Wiz for live TV broadcast, and penned a revised book for Funny Girl, currently running in London. His political editorials have been published in the New York Times, TV Guide and the Huffington Post and broadcast on PBS’s “In the Life.” His children’s book, The Sissy Duckling (Humanitas Award), is now in its fifth printing. As an actor, Mr. Fierstein is known worldwide for his performances in films including Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, and Bullets Over Broadway, on stage in Hairspray (Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy (Tony Award), and on TV shows such as “Smash,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “The Good Wife,” “Cheers” (Emmy nomination), “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” and “Nurse Jackie.”

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Luca Blankenship ‘23 (he/him) (Stage Manager) is a second year Theatre & Dance major acting as the stage manager for our production of The International Stud. An avid coffee drinker, Luca was horrified when he learned that no, his four mugs per day do not in any way count towards the fifteen cups of water recommended by hydration officials. He hails from Brooklyn, New York, and is currently taking a break from school to make art and ramen in San Francisco. 

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Audrey Boyle ’21 (director) is a Theatre & Dance and English double major from Honolulu, Hawaii. This will be her eleventh and final production at Grinnell. Recent/favorite credits at Grinnell and elsewhere include Year 3000 (playwright/performer), True West (Austin) and Curious Incident (Siobhan). She is honored that for her last Grinnell production, she gets to work with some of her favorite people.

 

Ahon Gooptu ‘21 (Ed) is a senior theatre & dance and English double major with a concentration in technology studies from Kolkata, India. Acting credits in Grinnell and beyond include Eurydice (Lord of the Underworld), Slow Jam (Charlie), Spring Awakening (Hanschen), Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Ali), STI: The Musical! (Derrick/Noah), Not a Moment (self-devised one-person show), and The Universal Language (Don). He has also trained at the National Theater Institute. Stay tuned for his beach boy life in Florida come fall! ahongooptu.com

 

Anjali Jain ‘21 (Set and Lighting Designer) is a fourth year Theatre and Dance Major from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is thrilled to be working on this production. Some of her past departmental credits include THD Choreography Interplanetary Showcase (lighting designer) Salt Marsh Suite (ensemble) and Project X (stage manager). She has also trained in lighting design and electrics at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. You can find her in the future completing a Fulbright grant, studying handblock printing in Jaipur. Read about the grant, and her other design work at anjalixjain.format.com.

 

Lucy Polyak ‘23 (she/her) (Costume Designer) is a second year Theatre & Dance and History double major (assuming she remembers to declare that second one) who took on the job of costume design. After spending most of this school year in her hometown of Iowa City, IA, Lucy is grateful to be back in Grinnell this term alongside some of her favorite people. When she’s not working on school or some sort of performance, you can find her pestering her friends to come visit her at the Pioneer Bookshop.

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Sophia Schott ‘21 (she/her) (Lady Blues, Music Director, Arranger) is a fourth year Music and English major from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her Grinnell theater credits include acting in Next to Normal and Spring Awakening, as well as a performance of her original show STI: The Musical! She also enjoys singing with the Grinnell singers, improvising with Infinite Coincidence, and talking about Diary of a Wimpy Kid. She will return to Grinnell on a music fellowship next Fall to produce an original musical.

Conner Stanfield '21 (he/him) (Producer, Arnold, Dramaturg) is a fourth year Theatre & Dance and Sociology major from Albuquerque, New Mexico. At Grinnell, Conner has previously performed in shows including Eurydice (Father), Spring Awakening (Ernst), and True West (Mom), assistant directed Red Velvet, and directed STI: The Musical! and The Falling Man. So far, his only confirmed post-graduation plans are looking for an international stud of his own.

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“The International Stud” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. 

www.concordtheatricals.com