Team

TED SNOWDON

presents

the PENGUIN REP THEATRE production of

Written & Performed by ROBERT MONTANO

Scenic DesignCHRISTOPHER
& JUSTIN SWADER

Lighting DesignJAMIE RODERICK

Sound DesignBRIAN RONAN

Assistant Stage ManagerLISA KLAGES

Production SupervisorFIVE OHM PRODUCTIONS

Company ManagerCHRIS BLASTING

Press RepresentativeTHE PRESS ROOM

Advertising & MarketingTHE PEKOE GROUP

Production CounselKLARIS / DOUG NEVIN

General ManagementLIVE WIRE THEATRICAL / ROY GABAY

Production Stage Manager“CURLY” KAREN SCHLEIFER

Directed byJESSI D. HILL

SMALL had its world premiere
at the Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, NY
(Joe Brancato, Artistic Director & Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director)

SMALL was produced Off Broadway by Penguin Rep Theatre
(Joe Brancato, Artistic Director & Andrew M. Horn, Executive Director)
in association with Ted Snowdon, Anthony Melfi & The Flying Carpet Theatre Company,
at 59 East 59 Theatres, New York, NY

Developed by The Flying Carpet Theatre Company

SMALL is not a production of Signature Theatre

ROBERT MONTANO (Performer/Author) Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominee; winner of the ACOR for Outstanding Solo Performance. Raised in Hempstead, Long Island, he has worked with great directors and choreographers such as Hal Prince, Rob Marshall and Jerome Robbins. He has also had the pleasure of working with the legendary Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spider Woman as well as her act Chita Plus Two. Starred as Ozzie in On the Town directed by George C. Wolfe, worked with Peter Allen in Legs Diamond and played a huge kitten in Cats. He couldn’t contain his creative scope to only musical theatre, he ventured into plays, film and television. He has created roles for the Academy Award-nominated writer José Rivera in Cloud Tectonics and References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, Lynn Nottage’s play Fabulation, Bess Wohl’s Barcelona, Tira Palmquist’s Two Degrees, Ken Lin’s Fallow, Richard Vetere’s One Shot One Kill and Edwin Sanchez’ Diosa. At Actors Theatre of Louisville, Robert was given the honor of portraying Cal in the epic East of Eden directed by Jon Jory and later was invited back to exercise his Shakespeare in The Comedy of Errors. He has also played Ralph opposite John C. Reilly in Marty. Television: guest starred “City on a Hill,” “FBI,” “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” “Evil,” “Bull,” “Prodigal Son,” “Blue Bloods,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Elementary,” “Search Party,” “Sex and the City,” “CSI: Miami,” “Law & Order” and HBO’s film Undefeated, directed by John Leguizamo. Film: Shame with Michael Fassbender, played opposite Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix in The Yards, partnered Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago, It Runs in the Family and Center Stage. Robert dedicates all performances to his parents, Salvatore & Gloria. www.robertmontano.com

JESSI D. HILL (Director) Jessi D. Hill (she/her) is a director based in NYC. Off-Broadway: Matthew Freeman’s The Ask (2025 Drama Desk Award nomination), Robert Montano’s SMALL (2024 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Chisa Hutchinson’s Surely Goodness and Mercy and Larissa FastHorse’s Vanishing Point. Credits include new work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, Primary Stages, Labyrinth, Women’s Project, 59E59, P73, Clubbed Thumb, La MaMa, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Realm, New Georges. Regional: Old Globe, George St. Playhouse, Denver Center, A.R.T., People’s Light, Diversionary, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, TheatreSquared and others. International: Edinburgh, London, New Zealand, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels, Ukraine, Rome. MFA directing: Yale. SDC. jessidhill.com

CHRISTOPHER & JUSTIN SWADER (Scenic Design) New York City & Off-Broadway: Primary Stages, Red Bull Theater, Fiasco Theater, Tectonic Theater Project, Mint Theater, The New Victory Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Penguin Rep, York Theatre Company, Mason Holdings. Regional: The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Signature Theatre (DC), Goodspeed Musicals, Children’s Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Two River Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Shakespeare, Everyman Theatre, People’s Light, Miami New Drama, Resident Ensemble Players at UD, Dorset Theatre Festival, Weston Theater Company, White Plains Performing Arts Center. www.cjswaderdesign.com

JAMIE RODERICK (Lighting Design) Off-Broadway: Lord Nil; Stalker; Empire; Make Me Gorgeous; SMALL; ¡Americano!; Disney’s Winnie the Pooh; Emojiland; Stranger Sings; Midnight at the Never Get (Drama Desk nomination); Arms and the Man; Candida; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Caesar & Cleopatra; Safeword.; Accidentally Brave; We Are the Tigers; Red Roses, Green Gold; The Woodsman; Afterglow; A Dog Story. London: Afterglow, It Happened in Key West. Regional: Super You, Denis DeYoung’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Bikinis!, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet. JamieRoderick.com

BRIAN RONAN (Sound Design) Brian has designed the sound for over 45 shows on Broadway including Rocky Horror (Tony Award® nomination); Smash; Some Like It Hot; The Great Gatsby; Funny Girl; Tootsie; Mean Girls; Springsteen on Broadway; The Prom; Beautiful; The Book of Mormon; Anything Goes; American Idiot; Promises, Promises; Next to Normal; Curtains; Spring Awakening; The Last Ship and Cabaret. With Robert Montano, he has been in development with SMALL since its inception. Brian is the fortunate recipient of the Obie, Lucille Lortel, two Drama Desks, an Olivier and two Tony Awards®. His career has spanned North America, Europe, Australia and Asia and has allowed him to work with the most talented composers, directors, designers, actors, musicians and stagehands in the world for which he is eternally grateful.

“CURLY” KAREN SCHLEIFER (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway producer/PSM (world premiere): Unblinking Eye (Flying Carpet Theatre). Off-Broadway PSM (world premieres): The Ask (Theater Accident), The Panic of 29 (59E59). Regional PSM (world premieres): SMALL (Penguin Rep); Secret Hour (Capital Rep); To the Moon (Creede Rep); Jews, Christians & Screwing Stalin (Matrix Theatre); As You Like It (SF Shakes). Regional PSM: SMALL (Old Globe, George Street Playhouse, 59E59, Lyric Theatre, People’s Light); The Shot featuring Sharon Lawrence (NJ Rep); King Lear, Pericles (SF Shakes); Loot (Aurora Theatre Company); Scrooge in Love! (42nd Street Moon); Driving Miss Daisy with Michael Learned (The Laguna Playhouse); Sexy Laundry (Axelrod Performing Arts Center). Corporate events supervisor/show caller: The Drama League Awards & Gala (2022–present), The Ziegfeld Ballroom/ISP (2024–present). Karen started her theatre career as Kate in the original Broadway company of Annie. Working musician & recording artist @shotguncurly. BA in literature from SUNY Purchase. She dedicates her SM career to Fritz Davis, and her theatrical career to Jennifer Straniere.

LISA KLAGES (Assistant Stage Manager) Lisa Klages is a director, stage manager and producer with over a decade of experience in interactive and immersive theatre. Credits: Secrets NYC (co-creator/director), Drunk Dracula (co-creator/director), Drunk Shakespeare (national creative director). Other SM credits: Sleep No More, Wing-Man starring Mark Gindick, Becoming Dr. Ruth starring Debra Jo Rupp, the Elf national tour. Lisa graduated from Pace University with degrees in directing and psychology, and she trained under the stage management team at Wicked. When she’s not creating theatre, she loves exploring New York City as a licensed tour guide.

ROY GABAY/LIVE WIRE THEATRICAL (General Manager) Roy Gabay/Live Wire Theatrical is currently represented on and Off-Broadway with Just in Time, Little Shop of Horrors and A Walk on the Moon. Upcoming productions include Billie Jean, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Little Dog Laughed and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train.

GABRIELA BELEN GUTIERREZ CRUZ/FIVE OHM PRODUCTIONS (Production Supervisor) Five OHM Productions is a full-service theatrical and event support company that offers theatrical and event staffing, audio and video design, production management, technical direction and lighting supervision. Gabriela is happy to be the lead production manager for SMALL. Gabriela has over a decade of production management experience and is currently the director of production for Five OHM. When not production managing, Gabriela is a birth doula and running coach for middle and high school students in Philly. Her favorite role is being Mami to Amaru, a dog, a fish, a cat and 15 chickens.

THE PRESS ROOM (Press Representative) Broadway: The Balusters, The Book of Mormon, Hamilton. Upcoming: Get Happy; The Harder They Come; Regency Girls; School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play. Off-Broadway: Heathers, Magic Mike Live, Music City, The Unbelievers. National tour: The Phantom of the Opera. Institutions: Barrington Stage Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Out of the Box Theatrics, NY Classical Theatre, The Wooster Group. thepressroomnyc.com

THE PEKOE GROUP (Advertising & Marketing) An award-winning, innovative, strategic and creative ad agency with departments in advertising, digital, promotions, social media, websites and design. We love New York City and for the past 17 years we have had the pleasure of working with some of the city’s finest restaurants, cultural institutions, Broadway shows (in NYC and on tour) and the Mayor’s Office for Media and Entertainment. The Pekoe Group is a certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise in New York City and New York State.

THE PERSHING SQUARE SIGNATURE CENTER The Pershing Square Signature Center, the permanent home of Signature Theatre, is a three-theatre facility on West 42nd Street designed by Frank Gehry Architects to host Signature’s three distinct playwrights’ residencies and foster a cultural community. The Center is a major contribution to New York City’s cultural landscape and provides a venue for cultural organizations that supports and encourages collaboration among artists throughout the space. In addition to its three intimate theatres, the Center features a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, a bookstore and the Signature Café + Bar. For more information on renting the center, please visit www.signaturetheatre.org/rent-our-space.

PENGUIN REP THEATRE Penguin Rep Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Joe Brancato and Executive Director Andrew M. Horn, has grown in 49 years from a summer theatre in a repurposed 1880s hay barn in Stony Point, NY, to become one of the Hudson Valley’s most impactful cultural institutions, reaching thousands each year at its home upstate, in NYC and beyond—with work premiered by Penguin moving to stages across the country and around the world. Hailed by The New York Times as “the gutsiest little theatre” and by Loud.com as a theatre that “continues to astonish,” Penguin is proud to have presented the world premiere and prior NYC productions of SMALL. www.penguinrep.org

TED SNOWDON (Producer) Ted Snowdon has Broadway credits reaching back to 1979’s Tony Award-winning The Elephant Man, with many others such as Chita Rivera in The Visit, Tyne Daly in Terrence McNally’s Master Class, Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop starring Samuel L. Jackson as MLK, Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still with Laura Linney, Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Pretty, Doug Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed with Julie White, Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir starring Judy Kaye, Jonathan Tolins’ The Twilight of the Golds and two Tony Award®-winning musicals: Spring Awakening and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. More recent Broadway offerings include Peter Morgan’s wake-up call about Putin, Patriots, and two White House plays, The Great Society starring Brian Cox as LBJ and Selina Fillinger’s farce POTUS. With Primary Stages, Ted’s co-productions include Charles Busch’s Ibsen’s Ghost, The Tribute Artist and The Confession of Lily Dare, along with Michael McKeever’s Daniel’s Husband, Clarence Coo’s On That Day in Amsterdam, A.R. Gurney’s Black Tie and The Fourth Wall, plus McNally’s The Stendhal Syndrome starring Richard Thomas and Isabella Rossellini. Other Off-Broadway includes Michael Urie in Jon Tolins’s hit comedy Buyer & Cellar, David Ives’ Mere Mortals, David Cromer’s staging of Our Town, Allan Leicht’s My Parsifal Conductor and Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed posthumous musical Here We Are. This past March, just before he turned 80, Ted was a producing partner on About Time, the charming Maltby-Shire revue about getting older. Three years ago, Ted joined Penguin Rep Theatre to present Robert Montano’s astonishing solo play SMALL in NYC, and he is thrilled to bring it back now for this extended run at Signature Center’s beautiful Griffin space. He is very grateful to Robert, Jessi, Curly, Jeremy, Roy, our designers and everyone on our team who has maintained this splendid piece for so long.