Reserve Seats
Thursday, November 20 – Sunday, December 7
PLEASE NOTE: The second Thursday performance falls on Thanksgiving Day! We will not have a performance on that day, but we will move the performance to FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, as a 2pm BLACK FRIDAY MATINEE.
Reserve Seats
Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.
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Synopsis
Get your deerstalker cap on—the play’s afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor; Dear Jack, Dear Louise) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. The intrepid investigators must escape a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the killer in time? Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be.
“At the center of this mad whirl, there’s a relatively sober suspense drama — brooding, darkly lit and full of clues that you can follow yourself as the mystery unravels.” —Hartford Courant
Cast & Crew
Meet the Author
KEN LUDWIG (Playwright) has had six productions on Broadway and eight in London’s West End. His 34 plays and musicals are staged around the world and throughout the United States every night of the year.
His first play, Lend Me a Tenor, won two Tony Awards and was called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Crazy For You is currently running on London’s West End. It was previously on Broadway for five years, on the West End for three, and won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical.
In addition, he has won the Edwin Forrest Award for Contributions to the American Theatre, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Charles MacArthur Award and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year. His other plays include Moon Over Buffalo, Leading Ladies, Baskerville, Sherwood, Twentieth Century, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, A Fox on the Fairway, A Comedy of Tenors, The Game’s Afoot, Shakespeare in Hollywood and Murder on the Orient Express. They have starred, among others, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Kristen Bell, Tony Shaloub, Joan Collins and Henry Goodman.
His book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare, published by Penguin Random House, won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year, and his essays on theatre are published in the Yale Review. He gives the Annual Ken Ludwig Playwriting Scholarship at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and he served on the Board of Governors for the Folger Shakespeare Library for ten years. His first opera, Tenor Overboard, opened at the Glimmerglass Festival in July 2022. His most recent world premieres were Lend Me A Soprano and Moriarty, and his newest plays and musicals include Pride and Prejudice Part 2: Napoleon at Pemberley and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
His plays include commissions from the Agatha Christie Estate, the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe Theatre, and the Bristol Old Vic. For more information visit www.kenludwig.com.
Meet the Director
NISI STURGIS (Director) is thrilled to return to St. Louis for her second season with New Jewish Theatre and to collaborate with this tremendously talented company. Last season, audiences may remember her as the formidable Giant in Into the Woods.
Directing credits include Sense and Sensibility (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Entrances to Heaven or the Dream of Springfield (TWF New Orleans/historic Vachel Lindsay Home); References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and The Wolves (Illinois Studio Theatre); Tame That B!#@H (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival/SHAKE 20); Red Ball and Voices of the New Belarus (Krannert Art Museum); and The Winter’s Tale (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre), where she is a founding member of the Artistic Collective.
As a performer, Nisi has appeared on Broadway in The 39 Steps and Off-Broadway in White on White, Intimate Apparel, The Pretty Trap, Dysphoria, and The Less We Talk. Her extensive regional work includes productions with The Old Globe (four seasons), Denver Center (five seasons), Cleveland Play House, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, San Jose Rep, Olney Theatre Center, Capital Rep, Geva Theatre, Theatre at Monmouth, Merrimack Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Zach Theatre, and St Louis Shakespeare.
She has also developed new work with Manhattan Theatre Club, The Lark, New Harmony Project, Dramatists Guild, Colorado New Play Summit, and OSF’s Play On! Project.
On screen, Nisi portrayed June Thompson across all five seasons of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, earning a SAG Award nomination for Best Ensemble. She holds an MFA from The Old Globe/USD and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Acting at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
Meet the Cast
NICK FREED (Sherlock Holmes) (he/him) is honored to make his NJT debut. St. Louis credits: Mindgame and The Birthday Party (STL Theater Circle nominee) (Albion Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (St. Louis Shakespeare). Chicago credits: Season Pass, belladonna luna sonata, and American Stage Sessions (The Plagiarists), The Crowd You’re In With (Aston Rep), Beyond Therapy (Eclipse Theatre), and London Wall (Griffin Theatre). Nick is the founder of Glass Elevator (@glasselevatorstl). He is represented by Shirley Hamilton Talent and Talent Plus. Nick would like to thank Britney and Robbie for their continuous love and support while he’s running around playing pretend.
BRYCE A. MILLER (Doctor Waston) couldn’t be happier to be back at NJT after recently appearing in The Wanderers, and in last season’s Trayf (St. Louis Theatre Circle Nomination). Other recent credits include work with The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Moonstone Theatre Company (The Nerd, Theatre Circle Nomination), Upstream Theatre, The Black Rep, and many more! BFA in Acting: Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Huge thanks to Rebekah and Nisi for your generosity and leadership. As always, this is for Mom and Dad. Thank you for supporting local art!
ALICIA REVÉ LIKE (Actress One) is excited for her debut at New Jewish Theatre. She is an actor/singer/songwriter based in St. Louis. Like was recently the librettist of the world premiere of Black Coffee with Opera Theatre St. Louis’ New Works Collective and composer of Metro Theater Company’s premiere of But What Can You Do? Other acting credits include: Rent (The Muny), Peter and the Wolf (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra), Kaleidoscope Crown (COCA), Puss in Boots (the St. Louis Rep), and The Light (The Black Rep). Check out her album, 12:12, under the moniker of REVÉ, on your favorite music streaming platform. aliciareve.com, IG@aliciareve
SEAN C. SEIFERT (Actor One) is thrilled to make his NJT debut with this amazing show! Sean is a graduate from the Southeast Missouri State University’s Conservatory and has worked in and around St. Louis in shows like The Inheritance (Young Henry) with Tesseract Theatre; The Mousetrap (Giles Ralston) & Saturday Night Fever (Frank Jr.) with Stray Dog Theatre. Sean also works for multiple companies as a director and fight choreographer on productions like Boeing Boeing (Director) with Kirkwood Theatre Guild & Heathers: The Musical (Director) with Ignite Theatre. Sean loves being able to bring pieces like this to life and bring joy into the community. He would like to thank his parents and family for their support, and his partner, Kayla.
JOHN WILSON (Actor Two) is making his St. Louis acting debut with the New Jewish Theatre. He taught performance courses for 20 years while chairing the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Central Missouri. He was the fight director in residence for the Kansas City Repertory Theatre for a decade and has over 50 acting credits in commercials, films, television and on stage. He is the current on-camera and voiceover spokesperson for Communication Federal Credit Union out of Oklahoma City. Wilson is the Director of Cultural Arts at the J and has provided dialect coaching and fight and intimacy direction for six previous NJT productions.
Meet the Crew
VICTORIA DEIORIO (Original Music & Sound Design) Off-Broadway: Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (New World Stages), Nine Circles (Sheen Center), A Christmas Carol (St. Clements), Two Point Oh (Primary Stages), Arnie the Doughnut (The Pearl), Cassie’s Chimera (Joe’s Pub-The Public), The Bluest Eye with Steppenwolf (The Duke Theatre), and many regional theatres. Victoria has won seven Jeff Awards, two After Dark Awards, and a SALT Award. She was the head of Sound Design at DePaul University for 15 years, and is currently building Vibes AI, a company using Sound Therapy to aid cognitive decline. For more information visit bio.site/VictoriaDeiorio..
ETHAN FOSS (Sound Design) worked with nonprofit theaters in Arizona for about five years before moving to Chicago to pursue his Bachelor’s in Theatrical Sound Design at The Theater School of DePaul University, where he studied under Victoria “Toy” DeIorio. He designed several small performances in Arizona, and while in Chicago, he was in the process of designing A Wrinkle in Time and Lunch Money when COVID shut everything down. Ethan is thankful to be back in the theater scene and looks forward to continuing to work with companies in the St. Louis area.
MICHELLE FRIEDMAN SILER (Costume Design) has been designing costumes for NJT since 2001, productions including The Heidi Chronicles, Cabaret, First Date, Trayf, Red, We All Fall Down, All My Sons, Into the Woods, The Immigrant (St. Louis Theatre Circle Award Nominee), Brighton Beach Memoirs (St. Louis Theatre Circle Nominee) and The Whipping Man. Recent credits include The Rose Tattoo, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire for the Tennessee Williams Festival (St. Louis Theatre Circle Nominee), The Sound Inside (Moonstone Theatre), Hamlet, The Tempest, The Heir Apparent (St. Louis Theatre Circle Nominee) for St. Louis Shakespeare, Into the Breeches (St. Louis Theatre Circle Nominee) Shakespeare in the Streets: Winds of Change for the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Pictures From A Revolution, Life is a Dream (St. Louis Theatre Circle Nominee), A Human Being Died That Night for Upstream Theater, Blithe Spirit (St. Louis Theatre Circle Nominee) and Waiting for Godot for St. Louis Actors’ Studio. Michele was named “Best St. Louis Costume Designer” in the 2016 Post- Dispatch GO! List and was named a 2022 “Unsung Hero” by the St. Louis Jewish Light.
REIKO HUFFMAN (Scenic Design) is a Scenic Designer and Assistant Professor of Scenic Design at UIUC and is delighted to have collaborated on this production. Her work explores design-based community engagement which directs her to work specifically with productions that have positive social impact. Upcoming productions include Disney’s Finding Nemo with The Rose Children’s Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska, and The Mountaintop in Pennsylvania.
LAUREN ROTH (Dialect Coach) (she/her) is an artistic educator and voice, speech, & accent coach. Select coaching credits include Once On This Island and Waitress (Broadway National Tours); Nothing Gold Can Stay (A.R.T./New York Theatres); The Cottage (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); and Murder on the Orient Express and Once (Duluth Playhouse). Lauren is a faculty member at the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. She is a certified teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork and The Singing Athlete Technique. She holds an MFA in Acting Pedagogy from CSU-Long Beach, and a BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch.
ZEV STEINROCK (Fight & Intimacy Choreographer) is thrilled to be a part of Baskerville, his first production with NJT! A professional fight director, intimacy director, teacher, and performer, Zev currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Acting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds certifications from the Society of American Fight Directors, and Intimacy Directors & Coordinators. National Fight and Intimacy Direction credits include South Coast Repertory Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, The Williamston Theatre, and Definition Theatre Company.
KATHERINE STEPANEK (Lighting Design) is a scenic and lighting designer working on productions across the country. She serves as Assistant Professor of Scenic Design at the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. A proud Webster alumna, she holds a B.F.A. in Lighting Design and an M.F.A. in Scene Design from the University of Tennessee
