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Those Who Can, Do
By Brighde Mullins
Directed by Laura Kepley

July 13, 14, 15, 16, 28, at 8 PM and July 30 at 1 PM

Leeds Theatre - Catherine Bryan Dill Performing Arts Center
Brown University , 77 Waterman Stree t , Providence , Rhode Island 20912

Box Office - 401-863-2838 www.brown.edu/tickets

Tickets: $10 Regular, $8 Seniors/Employees, $5 Students - All tickets unassigned seating

Ann Marie has an epiphany on the subway. She leaves a lucrative career in advertising to teach poetry and escape the "bourgeois narcotics factory." She winds up teaching at Staten Island Community College where she is stalked by an obsessive student and harassed by everyone else. A black comedy that takes on poets, professors, students, sexy baristas and shrinks.

Those Who Can, Do was started in the summer of 1999 as part of a residency at Anna Deavere Smith's Institute on Art and Civic Dialogue. Over the next four years Ms. Mullins re-wrote and re-visited the material. During the summer of 2003 she had a residency at MacDowell Colony, and brought what was at that point a 200-plus-page manuscript that was carved into three plays, a trilogy about Teaching in America. The first part of the trilogy is Those Who Can, Do, which had a workshop production at Clubbed Thumb Theatre during the summer of 2004; Maria Mileaf directed.

Brighde Mullins' plays include Monkey in the Middle, Fire Eater, Topographical Eden, Pathological Venus, Meatless Friday, and Baby Hades. Her over ten plays have been produced in London, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Her plays appear in the anthology Lucky Thirteen (University of Nevada Press) as well as in various other anthologies. Her poems appear in The Best of the Best American Poetry edited by Harold Bloom and A.R. Ammons. Her chapbook of poems Water Stories is from Slapering Hol Press (2003). Her awards include a Whiting Foundation Award, the Will Glickman Award, an NEA Fellowship, a Mabou Mines Residency, and the Jane Chambers Award. Mullins holds MFAs from the Yale School of Drama and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a Briggs­Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University, currently on leave: these days she is teaching at Brown University.

Laura Kepley received her MFA in directing from the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium. She is from Chicago, where she worked with Court Theatre, Eclipse Theatre, and Zeppo Productions, among others. Her work has been seen in the New York, Seattle, and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals. Laura has directed numerous productions for the Brown/Trinity Consortium, including The Seagull, Top Girls, The Winter's Tale, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, and The K of D. On Trinity's Mainstage, she assisted Oskar Eustis on the premiere of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise, Amanda Dehnert on Annie and directed the Ivy Cast in Mark Sutch's production of A Christmas Carol. She directed Laura Schellhardt's Shapeshifter and Deborah Stein's Aerodynamics of Accident for the Brown New Play Festival. Laura teaches acting and directing to Brown undergraduates.