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The Warriors for Newtown
January 6, 2013 at 7:30pm
Zacek McVay Theater
Please join Victory Gardens and a great team of Chicago artists as we all come together for a benefit to support the Sandy Hook Elementary Victims Relief Fund. The evening will include a one-night-only reading of The Warriors followed by a community conversation.
Can't attend, but still want to help? Donate to the Sandy Hook School Victims Relief Fund here.
Read an open letter from Mary Hollis Inboden
The Warriors
by Evan Linder
conceived by Mary Hollis Inboden
with contributions by Sarah Gitenstein, Wes Needham, Whit Nelson, Nicole Pellegrino and Michael Peters
directed by Kimberly Senior
Featuring Cliff Chamberlain, Cora Vander Broek, Matthew Brumlow, Will Allan, and Kristina Valada-Viars.
At 12 years old, Chicago actress Mary Hollis Inboden survived the Westside Middle School massacre, one of the most shocking events of the 90s. But who writes history when nobody’s the victor? In an honest and irreverent homecoming that mixes fact, fiction, identity, and history, Mary Hollis recruits an ensemble of her former classmates to help capture their stories, not of the tragic event that unites them, but of the daily battles and triumphs that define their present.
“My hope for all of us is that we find strength and comfort in one another and that our collaborative effort supports our individual healing.” -Mary Hollis Inboden
Will Allan (J.C.)
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Will Allan was last seen in Chicago as Stevie Grimes in Good People at Steppenwolf Theatre. His recent Chicago credits include The March and A Separate Peace (Steppenwolf), The Seagull and Dartmoor Prison (Goodman Theatre), The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Remy Bumppo), Much Ado and Romeo and Juliet (First Folio), and The History Boys (TimeLine Theatre Co.). Regional credits include Red and 24 Hours with the Human Race Theatre Company. He can next be seen in Chicago as Elder Thomas in Victory Gardens' production of The Whale by Samuel D. Hunter. His is a graduate of North Central College and also studied at The Moscow Art Theatre School and with LAByrinth Theater Company. He is a proud member of AEA.
Cora Vander Broek (Dani)
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Cora has appeared at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Doubt, and the last three seasons of A Christmas Carol. Her recent credits include Catherine Givings in In The Next Room or the vibrator play (Actors Theatre of Louisville and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor and Ellie Dunn in Heartbreak House (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks); the Midwest Premiere of J. T. Rogers’ Madagascar (Next Theatre); The DNA Trail (Silk Road/Goodman Theatre); All My Sons (TimeLine Theatre). In Chicago, Cora has also worked with Northlight Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Raven Theatre, Serendipity Theatre, The Hypocrites and she understudied and performed the lead role in Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Cora has received an After Dark Award (Actress in a Principal Role), a Jeff Citation Nomination (Actress in a Supporting Role) and has been featured in the Chicago Tribune as “One of the top five actors to watch now.” She can also be seen in the upcoming independent feature films Where We Started and Doug & Ami. Cora is a proud member of AEA and is represented by Chicago’s Big Mouth Talent.
Matthew Brumlow (Logan)
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Matthew Brumlow is an ensemble member of Chicago’s American Blues Theater Company where he has 14 production credits, including A View from the Bridge, Tobacco Road, and Oklahoma! A two-time Equity Jeff Award nominee in Chicago, Matthew has also performed with Court Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Timeline Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Appletree Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, About Face Theatre, and others. Regional credits include work with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Kansas City Repertory, American Heartland Theatre, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Montana Repertory Theatre’s national tour of A Streetcar Named Desire in which he played Stanley, Indiana Repertory Theatre where he recently played Hannay in The 39 Steps and the title role in Hamlet, Peninsula Players where he recently played Kaffee in A Few Good Men directed by Kimberly Senior and Michael McCormick in Lombardi. Matthew's portrayal of Hank Williams Sr. in Nobody Lonesome For Me was named one of the top solo shows of 2011 by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Matthew can be seen in the Independent Feature Films Endings, Where We Started, and the upcoming Doug & Ami with his wife Cora Vander Broek.
Cliff Chamberlain (Jeff)
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Cliff Chamberlain is honored to be a part of this reading. He’s worked around Chicago at Steppenwolf, The Goodman, Timeline, Northlight, Writers’, and recently in The Iron Stag King at The House, where he is a proud Company Member. Broadway credits: Superior Donuts. TV and Film credits: The Mob Doctor, Outnumbered and The Wise Kids. Cliff is a founding member of Sandbox Theatre Project, a graduate of UC Santa Barbara and The School at Steppenwolf. Love to R + E.
Mary Hollis Inboden (Mary Hollis)
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Mary Hollis Inboden is a Chicago-based actor, writer and devisor. She is thrilled to be back at VG where she was last part of the Ignition 2012 in the reading of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate. Other credits include: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, The Warriors, Hearts Full of Blood and Tupperware: an American Musical Fable with The New Colony; The Nutcracker (House Theatre), Torch Song Trilogy (Hubris, Jeff Nom. Best Supporting Actress), Top Girls (20% Theatre). Television credits include recurring roles on The Chicago Code and Boss.
Kristina Valada-Viars (Camille)
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Theater: Time Stands Still (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Jeff Nom), Olives and Blood (Neighborhood Productions@HERE), Pony (About Face), Monstrosity (13P), Love Drunk (Abingdon), August: Osage County (u/s Broadway), The Music Teacher (The New Group), This is Our Youth (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), 516 (NY Fringe). Film and Television: Molly's Girl (Best Actress in a Feature, Iris Prize Film Festival), The Door in the Floor, BlackBox, Law & Order, CI; Animal Husbandry. Upcoming: Itimar Moses' Completeness at Theatre Wit
Will Allan
Cora Vander Broek
Matthew Brumlow
Cliff Chamberlain
Mary Hollis Inboden
Kristina Valada-Viars
The Warriors for Newtown is part of Now Is The Time to ACT, a coalition of theaters involved in Now Is The Time, a citywide initiative to stop youth violence and intolerance.
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