Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Co-commissioned by
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s
American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle
And Arena Stage
World premiere produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
This production of SWEAT was first presented in New York by
The Public Theater
(Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director)
Originally produced on Broadway by Stuart Thompson and Louise L. Gund.

Stacey Connelly, Director
Rick Frederick, Producing Artistic Director
Trevor Gagnon, Production/Stage Manager
Gabriel Garcia, Lighting Design

 

CAST

Vince Hardy – Evan
Michael Roberts – Jason
Joshua Cook – Chris
Ross Olsaver – Stan
Alex Vincent – Oscar
Renee Garvens – Tracey
Megan Van Dyke – Cynthia
Kaitlyn Jones – Jessie
John Martin Fitzhugh – Bruce

 

TIME

2000/2008

 

SETTING

Reading, Pennsylvania

 

There will be one 15 minute intermission.
BIOGRAPHIES
Vince Hardy

Evan (African-American, forties; Jason and Chris’s Parole Officer. Evan exists only in the 2008 timeline)

Vincent Hardy has acted In New York City, regionally and on National Tours. Recent appearances in San Antonio include Agwe in Once on This Island and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol for The Public Theater of San Antonio. He is a graduate of Cornell University, MFA, Acting and Northwestern University, BA, Anthropology. He currently serves as Chair of Fine Arts & Kinesiology at St. Philips College.

Michael Roberts

 Jason (white American of German Descent, twenty-one/twenty-nine; Jason is the son of Tracey and former close friend of Chris)

Michael Roberts is excited to make his Tobin debut with this amazing cast and crew. Past San Antonio credits are Measure for Measure (Angelo) at the Classic Theatre; That Night (Jeremy) at the Overtime Theater; as well as A Bright New Boise (Alex) and Hand to God (Timothy) at the Public Theater. Favorite New York credits include The Little Dog Laughed (Alex) and Twelfth Night (Malvolio) at the Stella Adler Studio; 12 Angry Animals (Juror 2) with Phantom Limb Company; and Whatever You Are, Be a Good One (Various) with the Verbatim Performance Lab. Michael studied at the Stella Adler Studio through NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Joshua Cook

 Chris (African-American, twenty-one/twenty-nine; Chris is the son of Cynthia and Brucie and aspires to attend college. He is the former close friend of Jason)

Joshua has been acting since he was a child performing small roles with his father at the “Staatstheater Kassel” in Germany. Joshua has studied dance for over 14 years and studied Music Theatre at Abilene Christian University, however graduated with a Multimedia degree. Since moving to San Antonio he has performed in Roles such as : Topher in “Cinderella” at the Woodlawn (Wonder) Theatre, “Rent” with San Antonio Broadway Theatre and currently serves as a resident actor at the The Public Theatre (San Pedro Playhouse). This will be his debut performance with 100A productions. Upcoming productions include “Raisin in the Sun” at the Classic Theater.

Ross Olsaver

Stan (white American of German descent, fifties; Stan runs the bar the characters frequent)

After finishing his graduate work in Chicago, Ross divided his time working with the Neo Futurists, Redmoon Theatre, and the Steppenwolf Garage, and playing road music with Tom Schraeder, David Safran, Joe Pug, and Jai Henry. Locally, he worked with Attic Rep in Smudge and American Buffalo. He lives with his artist wife, Dr Susanna Morrow, who creates chaos in her home studio, and he is in the locally acclaimed Americana band Carolwood.

Alex Vincent

Oscar (Colombian-American, twenty-two/thirty; Oscar initially works at the bar with Stan, but goes on to work at the factory)

Alexander Vincent is a 23 years old San Antonio native, raised in New Braunfels, Texas. Theater arts have played a major and impactful part in his life. His formative years were spent doing shows at the Woodlawn and Cameo Theater in San Antonio, but truly found his footing in New Braunfels, working with the New Braunfels Performing Arts Academy. He continued to follow a path in theater by going to NESA, a magnet program for musical theater in high school. He is currently performing professionally at six flags and Seaworld and is so excited to be working on this reading of Sweat with 100A productions as the next step in my journey.

Renee Garvens

Tracey (white American of German descent, forty-five/fifty-three. Tracey is the mother of Jason)

Renee has spent the past forty years as a part time stage actress with occasional tiny roles in television and film while raising three phenomenal children and working for non-profit organizations including several San Antonio Theatre companies; The Classic Theatre, AtticRep, Vexler Children’s Theatre, and The Magik Theatre. In 2021, she was able to combine her passion for the performing arts with her experience in fundraising as the Vice President of Development for The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. When she isn’t at The Tobin, she enjoys spending time with her wife, entertaining in the style of Amy Sedaris, and begging her adult children to come over for a visit. Some favorite past roles include Carla in Lincolnesque (AtticRep), Carla in Curious Incident of the Dog at Midnight (Public Theatre of SA), Woman in Stage Kiss (Public Theatre of SA), and Karen in August Osage County (Sheldon Vexler Theatre).

Megan Van Dyke

Cynthia (African-American, forty-five/fifty-three. Cynthia is the mother of Chris and former wife of Brucie)

Megan van Dyke, M.Sc., is beyond excited to finally be making her stage acting debut at the Tobin Theatre-a long time dream of hers.  She began modeling at the age of 1, with baby pageants, and training classically in the arts at the young age of 7, at the Fillmore Arts Center in Washington D.C..  A short 8 years later, she started touring nationally with the Shooting Stars of Lynn Meadows in south Mississippi, a group that had been founded by the Emeril Lagasse Foundation.  Since then, she has performed as a singer, actress-both stage and film, and dancer, performing in theaters and companies throughout Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, New York, the Carolinas, and Washington D.C..  Some of her favorite credits include: Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Du Vent dans Les Branches Sassafras, Vagina Monologues, Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, Clayborne Park, Rumors, Disgraced, You Can’t Take it with You, The Importance of Being Earnest, Rocky Horror, and Ethics Follies, to name a few, in addition to a short tour with Sharon Needles from RuPaul’s Drag Race, and a film project for Sundance.  She has even acted in 3 films entered into the San Antonio Film Festival, at the Tobin.

 

When she is not gracing the stage or the camera, she is a bourbon connoisseur and spokesmodel and enjoys aerial dance and circus arts, as well as working on completing her 6th degree in artificial intelligence and human factor engineering.  With this, she hopes to one day take her company to international recognition, as she continues to accrue more theatrical and film credits when able.

Kaitlyn Jones

Jessie (Italian-American, forties)

Kaitlyn is excited to return to the stage after a four year hiatus. Previously, she appeared locally in productions at the Sheldon Vexler Theater, AtticRep, and Trinity University. Favorite roles include Jacqueline in Don’t Dress for Dinner, Catherine in The Foreigner (twice), and Lady Muldoon in The Real Inspector Hound.

 

She’s proud and grateful that the Tobin Center is developing new outlets for artistic expression and community, having previously served as its Front of House Manager. Kaitlyn currently works as the Director of Program Development at the 80|20 Foundation, helping to create and strengthen pathways for San Antonio youth to thrive in the city’s tech and cyber industry.

 

Off-stage, Kaitlyn most often can be found elbow-deep in some high-calorie cooking project, sourcing kitschy tchotchkes at local vintage stores, walking her dogs with an audiobook in her ear, or listening to the eclectic vinyl record collection amassed by her partner, Mat.

John Martin Fitzhugh

Brucie (African-American, forties. Brucie is the father of Chris and former husband of Cynthia)

John was born and raised in central Pennsylvania not far from the setting of Sweat.  At 19 he enlisted in the United States Air Force intent on seeing the world.  His last military assignment brought him to San Antonio in 2004.  After retiring in 2007, John began studying acting with local coaches and agents.  He has appeared in film and television as well as his first love, live theatre.  He has appeared in several Renaissance Guild theater productions and performed short form improvisation comedy for many years.  John has also written and directed works for the stage and film.

Stacey Connelly

(Director) Stacey Connelly took her PhD at Indiana University, then went to Berlin as a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service. For five years, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Loyola University Chicago; for thirty-two years, she’s worked as Associate Professor of Theatre at Trinity, where she teaches theatre history, dramatic literature and performance. She’s directed over fifty productions in academic and professional settings, including AtticRep, the McNay Museum of Art, and the Classic Theatre. In 2019 and 2022, she was one of three faculty leading a summer study abroad program called Trinity in Germany, taking students on a seven-week study program on German theatre and dramatic literature in Berlin. Her articles on German theatre, political drama, and educational theatre have appeared in books, regional and national journals, and she’s currently translating the post-war diary of German stage director Erwin Piscator.

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